Cloé
\klo.e\
The verdict
“Cloé” is uncommon French (frequency #82,797 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,797
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloe · Cloé · French
Cloé · rank #82,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,797
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clt
Nearest frequency peer: Clt (+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 « Cloé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clar
clar
17,208 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobe
17,207 corpus weight
- cliquent
cliquent
17,206 corpus weight
- Cloé
Cloé
17,204 corpus weight
- Clt
Clt
17,203 corpus weight
- Clélia
Clélia
17,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cloé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cloé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \klo.e\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cloé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cloé is uncommon French at frequency #82,797 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \klo.e\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Cloé has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Cloé, spelled C-L-O-É.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Cloé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les vacances terminées, ces guides finissent souvent dans la bibliothèque des globes-trotteurs, comme chez Cloé.
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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