Cléry
\kle.ʁi\
The verdict
“Cléry” is uncommon French (frequency #66,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,594
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clery · Cléry · French
Cléry · rank #66,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,594
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clientéliste
Nearest frequency peer: clientéliste (-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 « Cléry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cinco
cinco
33,410 corpus weight
- clientéliste
clientéliste
33,408 corpus weight
- Cléry
Cléry
33,407 corpus weight
- cochère
cochère
33,406 corpus weight
- coffin
coffin
33,405 corpus weight
- coffrer
coffrer
33,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cléry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cléry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kle.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cléry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cléry is uncommon French at frequency #66,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kle.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cléry, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Cléry, spelled C-L-É-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
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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