clearing
\kli.ʁiŋ\
The verdict
“clearing” is uncommon French (frequency #88,460 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,460
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compensation d’opérations financières ou commerciales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clearing · clearing · French
clearing · rank #88,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,460
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clicks
Nearest frequency peer: clicks (+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 « clearing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chibi
chibi
11,546 corpus weight
- chloroquine
chloroquine
11,544 corpus weight
- clearing
clearing
11,541 corpus weight
- clicks
clicks
11,540 corpus weight
- clownesque
clownesque
11,538 corpus weight
- Clytemnestre
Clytemnestre
11,536 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clearing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clearing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.ʁiŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clearing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clearing is uncommon French at frequency #88,460 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kli.ʁiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Compensation d’opérations financières ou commerciales.".
clearing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clearing, spelled C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Compensation d’opérations financières ou commerciales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clearing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soixante maisons de banque échangent là [à Wall-street] quotidiennement leur papier, et par des virements qu'amènent naturellement les relations d'affaires, arrivent en quelque sorte à payer sans argent. Il a suffi en 1871 de débourser ainsi 5 milliards pour en payer 170, soit 1 pour 34. Cette ingénieuse invention du clearing a été empruntée à l'Angleterr…
On aboutissait ainsi à une véritable extension sur le plan international du clearing bancaire.
Synonyms
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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