clivage

\kli.vaʒ\

/\kli.vaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“clivage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,961
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plans cristallins déterminés par la structure atomique tridimensionnelle de chaque espèce minérale. Il s’agit d'une propriété des minéraux de se fendre le long de faces planes (plans de clivage) qu...

Corpus desk

Index FR-clivage · clivage · French

clivage · rank #18,961 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,961
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH circulant

Nearest frequency peer: circulant (-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 « clivage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « clivage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

clivage vs clonage
71% similar
clivage vs clivages
88% similar
clivage vs climate
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for clivage
PropertyValue
Headwordclivage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kli.vaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,961
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clivage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.clivagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « circulant » (#18,960), « cofondateur » (#18,962), « chum » (#18,959). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clivage » est au #18,961. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around clivage (IPA \kli.vaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,961 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for clivage, with forms such as "cclivage", "cilvage", and "cliavge". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "clonage", "clivages", "climate", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clivage, spelled C-L-I-V-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plans cristallins déterminés par la structure atomique tridimensionnelle de chaque espèce minérale. Il s’agit d'une propriété des minéraux de se fendre le long de faces planes (plans de clivage) qui suivent l’organisation de ses couches atomiques ou de leur symétrie.
  2. 2
    Action de cliver les diamants.
  3. 3
    Fracture dans un groupe humain, une organisation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clivage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le clivage est le phénomène caractéristique de la cohésion dans les cristaux.
  2. La triplite a été décelée dans les pegmatites et filons de quartz stannifères des régions de Kaïlo et de Kisanda. Macroscopiquement, la triplite de couleur rose (Kaïlo) à brun clair (Kisanda) possède des clivages nets.

This word in other languages

cleavage(English)clivagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cclivage
  • cilvage
  • cliavge
  • clivaeg
  • clivagge
  • clivgae
  • clivvage
  • cllivage
  • clviage
  • lcivage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clivage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cclivage1cilvage2cliavge2clivaeg2clivagge1clivgae2clivvage1cllivage1
Edit distance from "clivage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clivage"?
"clivage" is spelled C-L-I-V-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kli.vaʒ\.
What does "clivage" mean?
As a noun, "clivage" means: Plans cristallins déterminés par la structure atomique tridimensionnelle de chaque espèce minérale. Il s’agit d'une propriété des minéraux de se fendre le long de faces planes (plans de clivage) qu...
What words are commonly confused with "clivage"?
"clivage" is commonly confused with "clonage", "clivages", "climate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clivage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clivage" is \kli.vaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clivage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clivage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

choqués#18,958chatons#18,956cerises#18,955costard#18,971

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

connexes10 variantsdiamond10 variantsassument10 variantsdormais10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list