Cléa
The verdict
“Cléa” is uncommon French (frequency #84,640 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,640
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clea · Cléa · French
Cléa · rank #84,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,640
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cléricalisme
Nearest frequency peer: cléricalisme (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Cléa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chrysalides
chrysalides
15,365 corpus weight
- cinémascope
cinémascope
15,364 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobie
15,363 corpus weight
- Cléa
Cléa
15,361 corpus weight
- cléricalisme
cléricalisme
15,360 corpus weight
- cognitivo
cognitivo
15,358 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cléa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cléa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cléa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cléa is uncommon French at frequency #84,640 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cléa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Cléa, spelled C-L-É-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cléa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mes filles s'appellent Cléa et Maëline.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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