Clélia
\kle.lja\
The verdict
“Clélia” is uncommon French (frequency #82,799 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,799
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clelia · Clélia · French
Clélia · rank #82,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,799
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clt
Nearest frequency peer: Clt (-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 « Clélia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cliquent
cliquent
17,206 corpus weight
- Cloé
Cloé
17,204 corpus weight
- Clt
Clt
17,203 corpus weight
- Clélia
Clélia
17,202 corpus weight
- codétenus
codétenus
17,200 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
17,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Clélia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clélia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kle.lja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Clélia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Clélia is uncommon French at frequency #82,799 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kle.lja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Clélia has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Clélia, spelled C-L-É-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
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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