clé à fourches
\kle a fuʁʃ\
The verdict
“clé à fourches” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de clé plate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cle-a-fourches · clé à fourches · French
clé à fourches · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 fourches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle a fuʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
clé à fourches is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kle a fuʁʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de clé plate.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clé à fourches, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is clé à fourches, spelled C-L-É- -À- -F-O-U-R-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de clé plate.
Synonyms
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