clocharde
\klɔ.ʃaʁd\
The verdict
“clocharde” is uncommon French (frequency #96,758 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,758
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui n’a ni argent ni résidence et qui vit à la rue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clocharde · clocharde · French
clocharde · rank #96,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,758
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coaguler
Nearest frequency peer: coaguler (+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 « clocharde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chroniqueme…
chroniquement
3,248 corpus weight
- claveciniste
claveciniste
3,246 corpus weight
- clocharde
clocharde
3,243 corpus weight
- coaguler
coaguler
3,242 corpus weight
- cocardes
cocardes
3,241 corpus weight
- colchicine
colchicine
3,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clocharde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clocharde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.ʃaʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clocharde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clocharde is uncommon French at frequency #96,758 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɔ.ʃaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui n’a ni argent ni résidence et qui vit à la rue.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for clocharde, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clocharde, spelled C-L-O-C-H-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui n’a ni argent ni résidence et qui vit à la rue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clocharde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai jamais pu que regarder par une fente entre les deux planches de la palissade ; d’effroyables clochardes vociféraient en gesticulant, d’autres étaient assises, immobiles, dans la neige ou le dos au mur. Un jour, mon œil appliqué à la fente rencontra un autre œil qui y était collé de l’autre côté : une de choses les plus horribles qui me soient jama…
L’histoire de Heisuké et sa clocharde se répandait, et cela faisait beaucoup rire.
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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