Clegg
The verdict
“Clegg” is uncommon French (frequency #62,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,143
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clegg · Clegg · French
Clegg · rank #62,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,143
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classical
Nearest frequency peer: classical (-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 « Clegg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinématogra…
cinématographe
37,861 corpus weight
- classait
classait
37,860 corpus weight
- classical
classical
37,859 corpus weight
- Clegg
Clegg
37,858 corpus weight
- coercitive
coercitive
37,856 corpus weight
- cofondé
cofondé
37,855 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Clegg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clegg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Clegg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Clegg is uncommon French at frequency #62,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Clegg in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Clegg, spelled C-L-E-G-G.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Clegg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nick Clegg, responsable des affaires internationales chez Meta, a confirmé jeudi à Davos qu’il n’y a « pas de consensus sur la signification exacte de l’IA générale ».
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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