clerk
\klɝk\
The verdict
“clerk” is uncommon French (frequency #95,709 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,709
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clerk · clerk · French
clerk · rank #95,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,709
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classifiée
Nearest frequency peer: classifiée (-2 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 « clerk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CJCE
CJCE
4,297 corpus weight
- clairsemé
clairsemé
4,296 corpus weight
- classifiée
classifiée
4,294 corpus weight
- clerk
clerk
4,292 corpus weight
- coagulant
coagulant
4,289 corpus weight
- coagule
coagule
4,288 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clerk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clerk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɝk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clerk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clerk is uncommon French at frequency #95,709 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɝk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clerk, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 clerk, spelled C-L-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1Employé.
- 2Commis, vendeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clerk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
office clerk.
store clerk.
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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