clé à crémaillère
\kle a kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“clé à crémaillère” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clé dont la tête de serrage comporte une crémaillère permettant de régler l'écartement des mors.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cle-a-cremaillere · clé à crémaillère · French
clé à crémaillère · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clé à crémaillère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle a kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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clé à crémaillère is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kle a kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clé dont la tête de serrage comporte une crémaillère permettant de régler l'écartement des mors.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clé à crémaillère, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is clé à crémaillère, spelled C-L-É- -À- -C-R-É-M-A-I-L-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Clé dont la tête de serrage comporte une crémaillère permettant de régler l'écartement des mors.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.