clé USB
\kle y.ɛs.be\
The verdict
“clé USB” 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif portable de stockage de données informatiques ayant la taille d’une clé, qui se branche sur un port informatique de type USB.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clé USB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle y.ɛs.be\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clé USB” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clé USB is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kle y.ɛs.be\. 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: "Dispositif portable de stockage de données informatiques ayant la taille d’une clé, qui se branche sur un port informatique de type USB.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clé USB 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 USB, spelled C-L-É- -U-S-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif portable de stockage de données informatiques ayant la taille d’une clé, qui se branche sur un port informatique de type USB.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-L-É- -U-S-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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