Clio
\kli.jo\
The verdict
“Clio” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,096. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,096
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muse de l’histoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clio · Clio · French
Clio · rank #17,096 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,096
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH color
Nearest frequency peer: color (+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 « Clio »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chantilly
Chantilly
82,908 corpus weight
- Churchill
Churchill
82,907 corpus weight
- Clio
Clio
82,905 corpus weight
- color
color
82,904 corpus weight
- comportait
comportait
82,903 corpus weight
- compétentes
compétentes
82,902 corpus weight
What this shows « Clio » 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 | Clio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kli.jo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Clio »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Clio (IPA \kli.jo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,096 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clio, with forms such as "cclio", "cilo", and "cllio". 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, "co", "cri", "CPI", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Clio, spelled C-L-I-O.
Definition
- 1Muse de l’histoire.
- 2Une des Néréides de la mythologie grecque.
- 3Une des océanides de la mythologie grecque.
- 4(84) Clio, astéroïde découvert en 1865 par Karl Theodor Robert Luther.
- 5marque commerciale de plusieurs modèles du constructeur automobile Renault
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Clio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Melpomène, Clio, et Thalie, c’est-à-dire les tragédies, l’histoire, et les contes, n’empêchent pas qu’on ne songe à ses dîmes, attendu qu’un homme de lettres ne doit pas être un sot qui abandonne ses affaires pour barbouiller des choses inutiles.
De Nérée et Doris cinquante Néréides : Glaucé, Thalie, Cymodocé, Nésée, Spéio, Thoé, Cymothoé, Actée, Limnorie, Mélité, Iaéra, Amphithoé, Agavé, Doto, Proto, Phéruse, Dymanène, Dexamène, Amphinomé, Callianassa, Doris, Panopé, Galatée, Némertès, Apseudès, Clymène, Ianira, Ianassa, Méra, Orithyie, Amathée, Drymo, Xantho, Ligée, Phyllodocé, Cydippe, Lycorias…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclio
- cilo
- cllio
- cloi
- lcio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clio - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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