clé plate
\kle plat\
The verdict
“clé plate” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil destiné à visser ou dévisser des écrous, constitué de deux mors plats d'écartement fixe à l'extrémité d'un manche. Généralement, une clé plate comporte un couple de mors, de modules différent...
Corpus desk
Index FR-cle-plate · clé plate · French
clé plate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 plate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle plat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clé plate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clé plate is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kle plat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Outil destiné à visser ou dévisser des écrous, constitué de deux mors plats d'écartement fixe à l'extrémité d'un manche. Généralement, une clé plate comporte un couple de mors, de modules différent...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clé plate, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is clé plate, spelled C-L-É- -P-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Outil destiné à visser ou dévisser des écrous, constitué de deux mors plats d'écartement fixe à l'extrémité d'un manche. Généralement, une clé plate comporte un couple de mors, de modules différents, à chaque extrémité du manche.
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.