clever
\ˈklɛvɐ\
The verdict
“clever” is uncommon French (frequency #91,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,535
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malin, maline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clever · clever · French
clever · rank #91,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,535
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civette
Nearest frequency peer: civette (-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 « clever »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chromium
chromium
8,470 corpus weight
- citerons
citerons
8,468 corpus weight
- civette
civette
8,467 corpus weight
- clever
clever
8,466 corpus weight
- closet
closet
8,465 corpus weight
- cocontracta…
cocontractant
8,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clever » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈklɛvɐ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clever » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clever is uncommon French at frequency #91,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈklɛvɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malin, maline.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clever, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clever, spelled C-L-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Malin, maline.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schluss mit verstopften Ventilen: BBB präsentiert mit «CoreCap» eine clevere Lösung für Tubeless-Fans.
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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