Clipperton
\kli.pœʁ.tɔn\
The verdict
“Clipperton” is uncommon French (frequency #89,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,535
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atoll situé dans l’océan Pacifique nord, à 1,081 kilomètres au sud-ouest du Mexique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clipperton · Clipperton · French
Clipperton · rank #89,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,535
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cochers
Nearest frequency peer: cochers (+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 « Clipperton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chérissait
chérissait
10,470 corpus weight
- cirées
cirées
10,469 corpus weight
- civilis
civilis
10,468 corpus weight
- Clipperton
Clipperton
10,466 corpus weight
- cochers
cochers
10,465 corpus weight
- cochléaire
cochléaire
10,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Clipperton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Clipperton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kli.pœʁ.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Clipperton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Clipperton is uncommon French at frequency #89,535 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kli.pœʁ.tɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Clipperton in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Clipperton, spelled C-L-I-P-P-E-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Atoll situé dans l’océan Pacifique nord, à 1,081 kilomètres au sud-ouest du Mexique.
- 2Possession française constituée de l’atoll.
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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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