cloisonner
\klwa.zɔ.ne\
The verdict
“cloisonner” is uncommon French (frequency #92,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,559
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séparer par des cloisons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloisonner · cloisonner · French
cloisonner · rank #92,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,559
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clinicienne
Nearest frequency peer: clinicienne (-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 « cloisonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- classica
classica
7,446 corpus weight
- clinicienne
clinicienne
7,443 corpus weight
- cloisonner
cloisonner
7,442 corpus weight
- cognacs
cognacs
7,440 corpus weight
- colophane
colophane
7,439 corpus weight
- colours
colours
7,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cloisonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloisonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \klwa.zɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cloisonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cloisonner is uncommon French at frequency #92,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \klwa.zɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cloisonner, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 cloisonner, spelled C-L-O-I-S-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Séparer par des cloisons.
- 2Séparer pour éviter les contacts, en parlant des activités humaines
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cloisonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les reliefs se dressent en puissants massifs ou encore constituent des systèmes montagneux très digités qui cloisonnent des petites pénéplaines. Aussi le paysage qui s'offre à la vue est-il toujours limité à l'horizon par des reliefs plus ou moins vigoureux.
A peine une salle était-elle cloisonnée que les menuisiers s'en emparaient pour y poser les boiseries et les vitrines, les tapissiers la tendaient d'étoffe, des ouvriers spéciaux la parquetaient de linoléum.
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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