claymore
\klɛ.mɔʁ\
The verdict
“claymore” is uncommon French (frequency #87,470 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,470
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Large et grande épée à deux mains qui était utilisée par les guerriers écossais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claymore · claymore · French
claymore · rank #87,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,470
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clarifiée
Nearest frequency peer: clarifiée (-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 « claymore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clairons
clairons
12,534 corpus weight
- claqua
claqua
12,533 corpus weight
- clarifiée
clarifiée
12,532 corpus weight
- claymore
claymore
12,531 corpus weight
- clientélist…
clientélistes
12,530 corpus weight
- closerie
closerie
12,529 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claymore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claymore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛ.mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claymore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claymore is uncommon French at frequency #87,470 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɛ.mɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Large et grande épée à deux mains qui était utilisée par les guerriers écossais.".
No misspelling variants are generated for claymore in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 claymore, spelled C-L-A-Y-M-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Large et grande épée à deux mains qui était utilisée par les guerriers écossais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how claymore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je choisis le pistolet, dit Burlington. — Moi, dit Escrik, l’ancien combat de champ clos à la masse d’armes et au poignard. — Moi, dit Holderness, le duel aux deux couteaux, le long et le court, torses nus, et corps à corps. — Lord David, dit le comte de Thanet, tu es écossais. Je prends la claymore. — Moi, l’épée, dit Rockingham. — Moi, dit le duc Ralp…
Je me souvenais de la longue vendetta qui opposa à travers l’histoire d’Écosse les Macfarlanes et les Macgregors, au temps où les chefs de clans maniaient trop fréquemment la claymore et le dirk !
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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