clef de fa
\kle də fa\
The verdict
“clef de fa” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Clef qui indique la position du fa nᵒ 2 (F₃) sur la portée. Elle est représentée par le signe 𝄢 et se place en début de portée, aujourd’hui sur la quatrième ligne en partant du bas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clef de fa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kle də fa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clef de fa” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clef de fa is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kle də fa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Clef qui indique la position du fa nᵒ 2 (F₃) sur la portée. Elle est représentée par le signe 𝄢 et se place en début de portée, aujourd’hui sur la quatrième ligne en partant du bas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clef de fa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is clef de fa, spelled C-L-E-F- -D-E- -F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clef qui indique la position du fa nᵒ 2 (F₃) sur la portée. Elle est représentée par le signe 𝄢 et se place en début de portée, aujourd’hui sur la quatrième ligne en partant du bas.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-L-E-F- -D-E- -F-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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