cleaver
\ˈkliː.və(ɹ)\
The verdict
“cleaver” is uncommon French (frequency #97,790 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,790
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fendoir, couperet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cleaver · cleaver · French
cleaver · rank #97,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,790
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claver
Nearest frequency peer: claver (-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 « cleaver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinés
cinés
2,215 corpus weight
- circonscrits
circonscrits
2,214 corpus weight
- citadel
citadel
2,213 corpus weight
- claver
claver
2,212 corpus weight
- cleaver
cleaver
2,211 corpus weight
- cohabitant
cohabitant
2,207 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cleaver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cleaver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkliː.və(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cleaver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cleaver is uncommon French at frequency #97,790 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkliː.və(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fendoir, couperet.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cleaver 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cleaver, spelled C-L-E-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fendoir, couperet.
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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