clément

\kle.mɑ̃\

/\kle.mɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“clément” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,434
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pratique la clémence.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clement · clément · French

clément · rank #5,434 · 12 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,434
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH clos

Nearest frequency peer: clos (-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 « clément »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « clément » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

clément vs client
71% similar
clément vs créent
71% similar
clément vs comment
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for clément
PropertyValue
Headwordclément
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kle.mɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,434
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clément »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).clémentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « clos » (#5,433), « commerces » (#5,435), « charger » (#5,432). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clément » est au #5,434. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around clément (IPA \kle.mɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,434 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui pratique la clémence.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for clément, with forms such as "cclément", "clement", and "cllément". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "client", "créent", "comment", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists 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 clément, spelled C-L-É-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui pratique la clémence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Montrez-vous clément cette fois.
  2. Prince clément.

This word in other languages

forgiving(English)mild(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cclément
  • clement
  • cllément
  • clméent
  • cléemnt
  • clémennt
  • clémentt
  • clémetn
  • clémment
  • clémnet
  • célment
  • lcément

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clément - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cclément1clement1cllément1clméent2cléemnt2clémennt1clémentt1clémetn2
Edit distance from "clément"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clément"?
"clément" is spelled C-L-É-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kle.mɑ̃\.
What does "clément" mean?
As an adjective, "clément" means: Qui pratique la clémence.
What words are commonly confused with "clément"?
"clément" is commonly confused with "client", "créent", "comment". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clément"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clément" is \kle.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clément" come from?
"clément" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clément", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

charger#5,432brigade#5,430constat#5,439antenne#5,423

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

commerces12 variantsartillerie12 variantsdisposer12 variantsanalyser12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list