clément
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,434
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
clément is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui pratique la clémence. Pronounced \kle.mɑ̃\. It ranks #5,434 in French word frequency. Often confused with client and créent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kle.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clément is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kle.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,434 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui pratique la clémence.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for clément, with forms such as "cclément", "clement", and "cllément". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "client", "créent", "comment", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 clément, spelled C-L-É-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui pratique la clémence.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cclément,clement,cllément,clméent,cléemnt,clémennt,clémentt,clémetn,clémment,clémnet,célment,lcément
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for clément
Misspelling Variants of "clément"
Frequency rank: #5,434 in French
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