Cléon
The verdict
“Cléon” is uncommon French (frequency #64,321 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,321
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cleon · Cléon · French
Cléon · rank #64,321 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,321
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cogolin
Nearest frequency peer: Cogolin (+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 « Cléon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chouchouter
chouchouter
35,683 corpus weight
- clarificati…
clarifications
35,682 corpus weight
- Cléon
Cléon
35,680 corpus weight
- Cogolin
Cogolin
35,679 corpus weight
- colimaçon
colimaçon
35,678 corpus weight
- commissionn…
commissionnaire
35,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cléon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cléon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cléon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cléon is uncommon French at frequency #64,321 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.".
Cléon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Cléon, spelled C-L-É-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cléon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Normandie, les agences Temporis de Rouen et Cléon accompagnent cette évolution.
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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