clochette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,890
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
clochette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cloche de petite taille. Pronounced \klɔ.ʃɛt\. Often confused with couchette and clochettes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clochette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clochette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klɔ.ʃɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,890 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for clochette, with forms such as "cclochette", "clcohette", and "cllochette". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "couchette", "clochettes", "cachette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is clochette, spelled C-L-O-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cloche de petite taille.
- 2Petite cloche qu’on porte ordinairement à la main.
- 3Petite cloche que les animaux d'élevage portent au cou.
- 4Nom vulgaire de plusieurs plantes qui ont des fleurs en cloche.
- 5(en diverses régions) Fromage de chèvre.
- 6Meuble représentant une petite cloche dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement utilisée en association avec un autre meuble. Ce qui la distingue de la cloche qui est utilisée seule. Il n'y a pas de représentation fixée. On peut voir parfois l’utilisation de la cloche du vair. À rapprocher de cloche, grelot et grillet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cclochette,clcohette,cllochette,clocchette,clocehtte,clochete,clochetet,clochhette,clochtete,clohcette,colchette,lcochette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "clochette"
Frequency rank: #31,890 in French
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