cloaque
\klɔ.ak\
The verdict
“cloaque” is uncommon French (frequency #52,572 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,572
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu destiné à recevoir les immondices, égout, dépotoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloaque · cloaque · French
cloaque · rank #52,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,572
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clinicien
Nearest frequency peer: clinicien (-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 « cloaque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chérubins
chérubins
47,433 corpus weight
- cinoche
cinoche
47,431 corpus weight
- clinicien
clinicien
47,430 corpus weight
- cloaque
cloaque
47,429 corpus weight
- coiffes
coiffes
47,427 corpus weight
- collatérale
collatérale
47,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cloaque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.ak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cloaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cloaque is uncommon French at frequency #52,572 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɔ.ak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cloaque, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cloaque, spelled C-L-O-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu destiné à recevoir les immondices, égout, dépotoir.
- 2Lieu malpropre et malsain, bas-fond.
- 3Cavité ou réceptacle commun au système digestif et au système uro-génital que forme l’extrémité du canal intestinal chez les oiseaux, les batraciens et les reptiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cloaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tomber dans un cloaque.
Un cloaque infect.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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