clonage

\klo.naʒ\

/\klo.naʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“clonage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,468
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique de reproduction d’un être vivant, génétiquement identique à un autre préexistant. → voir clonage reproductif

Corpus desk

Index FR-clonage · clonage · French

clonage · rank #34,468 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,468
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cities

Nearest frequency peer: cities (-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 « clonage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « clonage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

clonage vs clone
71% similar
clonage vs codage
71% similar
clonage vs chômage
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for clonage
PropertyValue
Headwordclonage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\klo.naʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#34,468
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clonage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).clonagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cities » (#34,467), « coe » (#34,469), « circulait » (#34,466). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clonage » est au #34,468. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around clonage (IPA \klo.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,468 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for clonage, with forms such as "cclonage", "cllonage", and "clnoage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "clone", "codage", "chômage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is clonage, spelled C-L-O-N-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Technique de reproduction d’un être vivant, génétiquement identique à un autre préexistant. → voir clonage reproductif
  2. 2
    Technique de production d’un clone cellulaire, ensemble de cellules partageant le même génome. → voir clonage cellulaire
  3. 3
    (Biologie moléculaire) Technique de multiplication à l’identique d’un fragment d’ADN. → voir clonage moléculaire et clonage à l’aveugle
  4. 4
    Fait de reproduire à l’identique.
  5. 5
    Fait de reproduire à l’identique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clonage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un projet britannique d'autoriser le clonage d’embryons humains relance le débat sur les limites de la recherche médicale.
  2. Par la suite, de nombreux perfectionnements du bouturage (Chaperon, 1983) et le développement de la culture in vitro (en particulier par l'AFOCEL) ont fait du clonage de l'Eucalyptus une pratique courante. Le clonage a permis l'usage des hybrides interspécifiques, la production des graines hybrides “en open” n'étant pas toujours possible, mais toujours al…

This word in other languages

cloning(English)clonación(Español)Klonen(Deutsch)clonagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cclonage
  • cllonage
  • clnoage
  • cloange
  • clonaeg
  • clonagge
  • clongae
  • clonnage
  • colnage
  • lconage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clonage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cclonage1cllonage1clnoage2cloange2clonaeg2clonagge1clongae2clonnage1
Edit distance from "clonage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clonage"?
"clonage" is spelled C-L-O-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \klo.naʒ\.
What does "clonage" mean?
As a noun, "clonage" means: Technique de reproduction d’un être vivant, génétiquement identique à un autre préexistant. → voir clonage reproductif
What words are commonly confused with "clonage"?
"clonage" is commonly confused with "clone", "codage", "chômage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clonage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clonage" is \klo.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clonage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clonage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list