cloisonné
The verdict
“cloisonné” is uncommon French (frequency #68,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,143
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a une ou plusieurs séparations dans son intérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloisonne · cloisonné · French
cloisonné · rank #68,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,143
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classifiés
Nearest frequency peer: classifiés (-3 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 « cloisonné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chrysanthème
chrysanthème
31,863 corpus weight
- civet
civet
31,862 corpus weight
- classifiés
classifiés
31,861 corpus weight
- cloisonné
cloisonné
31,858 corpus weight
- codétenu
codétenu
31,855 corpus weight
- cohabite
cohabite
31,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cloisonné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloisonné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cloisonné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cloisonné is uncommon French at frequency #68,143 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a une ou plusieurs séparations dans son intérieur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cloisonné in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cloisonné, spelled C-L-O-I-S-O-N-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a une ou plusieurs séparations dans son intérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cloisonné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les filaments de certaines conferves sont cloisonnés.
Coquillage cloisonné.
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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