clavier

/\kla.vje\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,532

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

clavier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Anneau ou chaîne de métal, servant à réunir des clefs. Pronounced \kla.vje\. It ranks #5,532 in French word frequency. Often confused with cuvier and claviers.

Key facts for clavier
PropertyValue
Headwordclavier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kla.vje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,532
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of clavier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for clavier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kla.vje\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,532 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for clavier, with forms such as "calvier", "cclavier", and "claiver". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "cuvier", "claviers", "clair", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is clavier, spelled C-L-A-V-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anneau ou chaîne de métal, servant à réunir des clefs.
  2. 2
    Rangée des touches d’un piano, d’une épinette, d’un clavecin, d’un jeu d’orgues.
  3. 3
    Instrument à clavier, en particulier synthétiseur ou orgue électronique.
  4. 4
    Instrumentiste jouant d’un instrument à clavier.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des touches d'une machine à écrire sur lesquelles on appuie avec les doigts pour écrire.
  6. 6
    Périphérique principal d’entrée constitué de touches et qui permet d’interagir avec un ordinateur.
  7. 7
    Représentation d’un clavier, avec touches tactiles, sur une tablette numérique, un smartphone…
  8. 8
    Gamme, large choix, palette.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: calvier,cclavier,claiver,claveir,clavierr,clavire,clavvier,cllavier,clvaier,lcavier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for clavier

Misspelling Variants of "clavier"

calvier7cclavier8claiver7claveir7clavierr8clavire7clavvier8cllavier8
Misspelling Variants of "clavier"

Frequency rank: #5,532 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clavier"?
"clavier" is spelled C-L-A-V-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kla.vje\.
What does "clavier" mean?
As a noun, "clavier" means: Anneau ou chaîne de métal, servant à réunir des clefs.
What words are commonly confused with "clavier"?
"clavier" is commonly confused with "cuvier", "claviers", "clair". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clavier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clavier" is \kla.vje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clavier" come from?
"clavier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.