clébard

\kle.baʁ\

/\kle.baʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clébard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for clébard
PropertyValue
Headwordclébard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kle.baʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#76,436
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « clébard » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).clébardtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « clubbing » (#76,435), « codant » (#76,438), « clignement » (#76,433). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clébard » est au #76,436. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Chien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clébard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. Un mur de pierres blanches jointées en losange protégeait cette portion de trottoir des regards et servait de crottoir aux clébards du quartier.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clébard"?
"clébard" is spelled C-L-É-B-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \kle.baʁ\.
What does "clébard" mean?
As a noun, "clébard" means: Chien.
How do you pronounce "clébard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clébard" is \kle.baʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clébard" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clébard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list