clean
\klin\
The verdict
“clean” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,931
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propre, sans saleté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clean · clean · French
clean · rank #11,931 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,931
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circule
Nearest frequency peer: circule (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « clean »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choquant
choquant
88,073 corpus weight
- Chypre
Chypre
88,072 corpus weight
- circule
circule
88,071 corpus weight
- clean
clean
88,070 corpus weight
- cole
cole
88,069 corpus weight
- comprenne
comprenne
88,068 corpus weight
What this shows « clean » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clean |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clean »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around clean (IPA \klin\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,931 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for clean, with forms such as "cclean", "celan", and "claen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clés", "clef", "clin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is clean, spelled C-L-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Propre, sans saleté.
- 2Sobre, qui n’est pas ivre et qui n’a pas consommé de produit hallucinogène.
- 3Qui n’a pas de casier judiciaire.
- 4Honnête.
- 5Qui n’a pas d’impact, qui peut continuer à jouer.
- 6Qui n'est pas porteur d’un infection sexuellement transmissible, ce terme est généralement employé sans qu'aucune réalité médicale puisse en attesté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Demain la salle doit être clean sans faute.
À l’époque, Christophe avait aussi une histoire avec la petite Charlotte Brassard, si mignonne et clean en comparaison.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclean
- celan
- claen
- cleann
- clena
- cllean
- lcean
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clean - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clean", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).