clochait
\klɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“clochait” is uncommon French (frequency #67,382 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,382
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe clocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clochait · clochait · French
clochait · rank #67,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,382
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clivant
Nearest frequency peer: clivant (-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 « clochait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clignoter
clignoter
32,622 corpus weight
- climatologu…
climatologues
32,621 corpus weight
- clivant
clivant
32,620 corpus weight
- clochait
clochait
32,619 corpus weight
- clothes
clothes
32,618 corpus weight
- coauteurs
coauteurs
32,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clochait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clochait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \klɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clochait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clochait is uncommon French at frequency #67,382 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \klɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe clocher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clochait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is clochait, spelled C-L-O-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe clocher.
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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