claveau
\kla.vo\
The verdict
“claveau” is uncommon French (frequency #69,690 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,690
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre taillée en forme de coin, élément d’une voûte (on parle alors de voussoir), d’un arc ou d’une plate-bande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claveau · claveau · French
claveau · rank #69,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,690
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cithare
Nearest frequency peer: cithare (-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 « claveau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cimier
cimier
30,314 corpus weight
- cirée
cirée
30,313 corpus weight
- cithare
cithare
30,312 corpus weight
- claveau
claveau
30,311 corpus weight
- climatisés
climatisés
30,310 corpus weight
- Cluj
Cluj
30,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claveau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claveau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kla.vo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claveau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claveau is uncommon French at frequency #69,690 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kla.vo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pierre taillée en forme de coin, élément d’une voûte (on parle alors de voussoir), d’un arc ou d’une plate-bande.".
Zero misspellings are on record for claveau in our index, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is claveau, spelled C-L-A-V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Pierre taillée en forme de coin, élément d’une voûte (on parle alors de voussoir), d’un arc ou d’une plate-bande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claveau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si donc on pratique une crossette sur chaque joint par tête à ce claveau d'angle, un claveau courant cen'o pourra venir s'appuyer sur cette crossette et sur celle des sommiers, et on ferait voir, par un raisonnement semblable au précédent, que ce claveau resterait en place de lui-même.
Cinq claveaux seuls font parpaing et forment ainsi un arc de décharge au-dessus des arcs linteaux.
This word in other languages
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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