clebs
\klɛps\
The verdict
“clebs” is uncommon French (frequency #72,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,193
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clebs · clebs · French
clebs · rank #72,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,193
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clauzel
Nearest frequency peer: Clauzel (-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 « clebs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clarins
clarins
27,812 corpus weight
- Clauzel
Clauzel
27,809 corpus weight
- clebs
clebs
27,808 corpus weight
- cliffhanger
cliffhanger
27,807 corpus weight
- coda
coda
27,806 corpus weight
- collectant
collectant
27,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clebs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clebs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clebs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clebs is uncommon French at frequency #72,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɛps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chien.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for clebs in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 clebs, spelled C-L-E-B-S.
Definition
- 1Chien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clebs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ton clebs a encore fait ses besoins devant la porte !
Il le regarde s’éloigner dans la lumière crue de l’avenue, avec son affreux clebs.
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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