Clauzel
\klo.zɛl\
The verdict
“Clauzel” is uncommon French (frequency #72,192 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,192
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune de Houari Boumédiène dans la wilaya de Guelma en Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clauzel · Clauzel · French
Clauzel · rank #72,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,192
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clebs
Nearest frequency peer: clebs (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Clauzel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clapets
clapets
27,813 corpus weight
- clarins
clarins
27,812 corpus weight
- Clauzel
Clauzel
27,809 corpus weight
- clebs
clebs
27,808 corpus weight
- cliffhanger
cliffhanger
27,807 corpus weight
- coda
coda
27,806 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Clauzel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clauzel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \klo.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Clauzel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Clauzel is uncommon French at frequency #72,192 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \klo.zɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom de la commune de Houari Boumédiène dans la wilaya de Guelma en Algérie.".
Clauzel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Clauzel, spelled C-L-A-U-Z-E-L.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune de Houari Boumédiène dans la wilaya de Guelma en Algérie.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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