clerc
\klɛʁ\
The verdict
“clerc” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,093
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui est entrée dans l’état ecclésiastique en recevant la tonsure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clerc · clerc · French
clerc · rank #16,093 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,093
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinémas
Nearest frequency peer: cinémas (-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 « clerc »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chuter
chuter
83,911 corpus weight
- cinémas
cinémas
83,909 corpus weight
- clerc
clerc
83,908 corpus weight
- CN
CN
83,907 corpus weight
- CNIL
CNIL
83,906 corpus weight
- cols
cols
83,905 corpus weight
What this shows « clerc » 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 | clerc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clerc »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around clerc (IPA \klɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,093 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for clerc, with forms such as "cclerc", "celrc", and "clecr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRC", "clés", "clic", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clerc, spelled C-L-E-R-C.
Definition
- 1Personne qui est entrée dans l’état ecclésiastique en recevant la tonsure.
- 2Savant ; personne instruite ; intellectuel.
- 3Personne qui travaille dans l’étude d’un notaire, d’un avoué, ou d’un huissier. → voir clerc de notaire
- 4Classe de lanceur de sorts qui reçoit ses pouvoirs, notamment sa magie de soin, de sa divinité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clerc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi qu’en 465 le concile de Vannes interdit aux clercs non seulement de prendre part aux repas de juifs, mais de les inviter à leurs propre table.
Lorsque la troupe des pastoureaux entra dans Orléans, le jour de saint Barnabas, l’évêque de cette ville interdit à tous ses clercs d’assister à ses prédications ; car, disait-il, ce sont les souricières du diable.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclerc
- celrc
- clecr
- clercc
- clerrc
- cllerc
- clrec
- lcerc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clerc - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).