Clèves
\klɛv\
The verdict
“Clèves” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,221
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cleves · Clèves · French
Clèves · rank #39,221 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claus
Nearest frequency peer: claus (-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 « Clèves »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- civitas
civitas
60,785 corpus weight
- classant
classant
60,782 corpus weight
- claus
claus
60,781 corpus weight
- Clèves
Clèves
60,780 corpus weight
- Coen
Coen
60,779 corpus weight
- commandite
commandite
60,776 corpus weight
What this shows « Clèves » 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 | Clèves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \klɛv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Clèves »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Clèves (IPA \klɛv\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clèves, with forms such as "cclèves", "cleves", and "cllèves". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "créés", "crevé", "cuves", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Clèves, spelled C-L-È-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Allemagne, située dans la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Clèves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le duché de Clèves.
La ville de Clèves est située un peu au dessus de l’endroit où le Rhin se divise en deux bras, à une lieue de ce fleuve. Elle est sur le penchant de trois collines, in clivo, d’où l’on prétend qu’elle a tiré son nom Clivia, que nous avons changé en celui de Clèves. Quelques-uns même l’appellent en Latin Clivi. C’est, dit-on, César qui l’a bâtie. Elle étoi…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclèves
- cleves
- cllèves
- clvèes
- clèevs
- clèvess
- clèvse
- clèvves
- cèlves
- lcèves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clèves - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).