clébard
\kle.baʁ\
The verdict
“clébard” is uncommon French (frequency #76,436 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,436
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clebard · clébard · French
clébard · rank #76,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,436
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clubbing
Nearest frequency peer: clubbing (-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 « clébard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clignement
clignement
23,568 corpus weight
- clubbing
clubbing
23,566 corpus weight
- clébard
clébard
23,565 corpus weight
- codant
codant
23,563 corpus weight
- cognes
cognes
23,561 corpus weight
- coil
coil
23,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clébard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clébard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clébard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clébard is uncommon French at frequency #76,436 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kle.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chien.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clébard, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clébard, spelled C-L-É-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Chien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clébard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faute de mieux, Marçais a suivi sa mère comme son ombre, avec le maigre espoir qu’elle retrouve son fils : la promenade du clébard, un horrible cocker court sur pattes, les courses au Codec voisin, et même la virée en bus dans l’après-midi, jusqu’au Prisunic des Champs-Élysées, où elle a acheté tout un tas de produits de beauté.
Un mur de pierres blanches jointées en losange protégeait cette portion de trottoir des regards et servait de crottoir aux clébards du quartier.
This word in other languages
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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