clé de fa
The verdict
“clé de fa” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Clé qui concerne les sons graves et se plaçant en début de la troisième portée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clé de fa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle də fa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clé de fa” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clé de fa is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kle də fa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Clé qui concerne les sons graves et se plaçant en début de la troisième portée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clé de fa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 clé de fa, spelled C-L-É- -D-E- -F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clé qui concerne les sons graves et se plaçant en début de la troisième portée.
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Using “clé de fa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-L-É- -D-E- -F-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kle də fa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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