clavardage
\kla.vaʁ.daʒ\
The verdict
“clavardage” is uncommon French (frequency #85,576 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,576
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conversation, communication écrite en temps réel sur Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clavardage · clavardage · French
clavardage · rank #85,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,576
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cleaner
Nearest frequency peer: cleaner (+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 « clavardage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- châtellenies
châtellenies
14,429 corpus weight
- chétive
chétive
14,428 corpus weight
- circulera
circulera
14,427 corpus weight
- clavardage
clavardage
14,425 corpus weight
- cleaner
cleaner
14,424 corpus weight
- coache
coache
14,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clavardage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clavardage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.vaʁ.daʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clavardage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clavardage is uncommon French at frequency #85,576 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.vaʁ.daʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conversation, communication écrite en temps réel sur Internet.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for clavardage, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is clavardage, spelled C-L-A-V-A-R-D-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Conversation, communication écrite en temps réel sur Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clavardage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’activité en voie de devenir la plus populaire est le chat (clavardage) entre amis bien que la télévision occupe toujours la part du lion de leurs activités de loisir.
En revanche, la possibilité d’utiliser le clavardage est spécifique au système de visioconférence.
Synonyms
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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