Clemenceau
\kle.mɑ̃.so\
The verdict
“Clemenceau” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,485
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français, surtout connu par Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), homme politique français, président du Conseil de 1906 à 1909 et de 1917 à 1920, surnommé le Tigre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clemenceau · Clemenceau · French
Clemenceau · rank #23,485 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,485
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH circoncision
Nearest frequency peer: circoncision (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Clemenceau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chrétienté
chrétienté
76,520 corpus weight
- church
church
76,519 corpus weight
- circoncision
circoncision
76,517 corpus weight
- Clemenceau
Clemenceau
76,516 corpus weight
- cliff
cliff
76,515 corpus weight
- Cluny
Cluny
76,514 corpus weight
What this shows « Clemenceau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clemenceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kle.mɑ̃.so\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Clemenceau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Clemenceau (IPA \kle.mɑ̃.so\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,485 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français, surtout connu par Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), homme politique français, président du Conseil de 1906 à 1909 et de 1917 à 1920, surnommé le Tigre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clemenceau, with forms such as "cclemenceau", "celmenceau", and "cleemnceau". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "clémence", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Clemenceau, spelled C-L-E-M-E-N-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français, surtout connu par Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), homme politique français, président du Conseil de 1906 à 1909 et de 1917 à 1920, surnommé le Tigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Clemenceau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il entra et reconnut le vieux Georges qu’il avait toujours connu vieux, bourru, méchant, coiffé d’un bonnet de police, avec des moustaches de phoque et d’épais sourcils à la Clemenceau.
Des souvenirs exaltants se pressaient dans leurs mémoires, Roland sonnant l’olifant et brisant ensuite sa fidèle épée Durandal sur un roc de granit rouge à texture cristalline, mon oncle Henri affirmant à la fin du repas de noces de ma cousine Thérèse qu’on avait entendu des tigres rugir à Gavarnie le soir de la mort de Clemenceau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclemenceau
- celmenceau
- cleemnceau
- clemecneau
- clemencaeu
- clemencceau
- clemenceua
- clemenecau
- clemennceau
- clemmenceau
- clemneceau
- cllemenceau
- clmeenceau
- lcemenceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clemenceau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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