clé plate
\kle plat\
The verdict
“clé plate” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “clé plate” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clé plate is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kle plat\. 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: "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...".
No misspelling variants are generated for clé plate 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 plate, spelled C-L-É- -P-L-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Using “clé plate”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-L-É- -P-L-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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