clodo
\klɔ.do\
The verdict
“clodo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,729
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clochard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clodo · clodo · French
clodo · rank #37,729 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,729
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clamart
Nearest frequency peer: Clamart (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « clodo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choisirais
choisirais
62,275 corpus weight
- cimes
cimes
62,274 corpus weight
- Clamart
Clamart
62,273 corpus weight
- clodo
clodo
62,272 corpus weight
- cochonneries
cochonneries
62,271 corpus weight
- codification
codification
62,270 corpus weight
What this shows « clodo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clodo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.do\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clodo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around clodo (IPA \klɔ.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,729 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Clochard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for clodo, with forms such as "cclodo", "cldoo", and "cllodo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cod", "code", "clos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clodo, spelled C-L-O-D-O.
Definition
- 1Clochard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clodo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des flics allaient et venaient, débonnaires, surtout attentifs à ne pas poser leurs godasses sur des détritus, ce qui leur auraient fait perdre l’équilibre et ramasser un gadin incompatible avec leur dignité. Ils frôlaient des clodos et des tapineuses.
Pendant les alertes c'est là qu'on venait aux abris et quand il faisait trop froid. L'hiver c'est là qu'on vient se cacher avec les filles et toutes les nuits y’a des clodos qui viennent y roupiller.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclodo
- cldoo
- cllodo
- cloddo
- clood
- coldo
- lcodo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clodo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).