claver
\kla.ve\
The verdict
“claver” is uncommon French (frequency #97,789 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,789
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fermer à clé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claver · claver · French
claver · rank #97,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,789
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citadel
Nearest frequency peer: citadel (-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 « claver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinsault
cinsault
2,216 corpus weight
- cinés
cinés
2,215 corpus weight
- circonscrits
circonscrits
2,214 corpus weight
- citadel
citadel
2,213 corpus weight
- claver
claver
2,212 corpus weight
- cleaver
cleaver
2,211 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kla.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claver is uncommon French at frequency #97,789 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kla.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for claver in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 claver, spelled C-L-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fermer à clé.
- 2Remblayer les galeries d’une mine jusqu’en haut de la voûte.
- 3Poser un claveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le soir, de l’autre côté de la porte que j’avais bien clavée, j’entre en contact avec Michel.
En 1960, l'apparition de fissures sur le parement amont du plot 2 et le soulèvement du couronnement du plot 2 conduisent à installer des témoins sonores sur les fissures pour surveiller leur évolution , à carotter ces fissures pour connaître leur profondeur (< 1,50 m) et à essayer de claver, vainement d'ailleurs, les deux premiers joints.
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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