cloakroom
\ˈkləʊkɹʊm\
The verdict
“cloakroom” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vestiaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloakroom · cloakroom · French
cloakroom · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloakroom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkləʊkɹʊm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cloakroom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cloakroom is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkləʊkɹʊm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
cloakroom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cloakroom, spelled C-L-O-A-K-R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1Vestiaire.
- 2Local réservé à l’accueil des bagages (par exemple dans un aéroport).
- 3Toilettes, w.-c. (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
- 4Toilettes, w.-c. (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.