cleaner
\kli.ne\
The verdict
“cleaner” is uncommon French (frequency #85,577 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,577
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nettoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cleaner · cleaner · French
cleaner · rank #85,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,577
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clavardage
Nearest frequency peer: clavardage (-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 « cleaner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chétive
chétive
14,428 corpus weight
- circulera
circulera
14,427 corpus weight
- clavardage
clavardage
14,425 corpus weight
- cleaner
cleaner
14,424 corpus weight
- coache
coache
14,422 corpus weight
- COBOL
COBOL
14,421 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cleaner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cleaner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kli.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cleaner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cleaner is uncommon French at frequency #85,577 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kli.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cleaner, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cleaner, spelled C-L-E-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer.
- 2Nettoyer à fond, récurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cleaner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai cleané le fond de la penderie, celle où j’entasse tous mes trucs.
Leur obsession sera de « cleaner la map », c’est-à-dire d’explorer le jeu de fond en comble, plutôt que de finir les missions du scénario.
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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