clone

\klon\

/\klon\/ noun

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The verdict

“clone” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,481
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des êtres vivants issus, par voie asexuée, d’un seul individu et possédant son patrimoine génétique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clone · clone · French

clone · rank #19,481 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,481
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH citons

Nearest frequency peer: citons (-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 « clone »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « clone » 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).

clone vs con
60% similar
clone vs coe
60% similar
clone vs CNE
0% similar

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

Key facts for clone
PropertyValue
Headwordclone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\klon\
Letters5
Frequency rank#19,481
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clone »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).clonese 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 « citons » (#19,480), « collaborations » (#19,482), « chômeur » (#19,479). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clone » est au #19,481. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around clone (IPA \klon\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,481 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for clone, with forms such as "cclone", "cllone", and "clnoe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "coe", "CNE", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 clone, spelled C-L-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble des êtres vivants issus, par voie asexuée, d’un seul individu et possédant son patrimoine génétique.
  2. 2
    Être vivant issu d'un clonage.
  3. 3
    Personne considérée comme la copie parfaite d'une autre personne.
  4. 4
    Logiciel dont les fonctionnalités sont copiées d’un autre, sans nécessairement qu’il y ait de copié-collé dans leur code source.
  5. 5
    Marque de matériel (par ex. un processeur, un ordinateur, une imprimante, etc.) dont les fonctionnalités ont été copiées de la marque reconnue.
  6. 6
    Ensemble de fonctions clos par composition, projection etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il comprendra pourquoi les membres d'un clone sont si complètement semblables ; pourquoi ils ne peuvent pas reproduire un type particulier à partir de la graine ; pourquoi tous les membres peuvent être stériles […].
  2. D'après ces résultats il apparaît : 1 ° Que le tissu cambial de Populus Tremula est toujours capable d'émettre des racines même s'il s'agit d'un clone particulièrement rebelle au bouturage.

This word in other languages

clone(English)clon(Español)Klon(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cclone
  • cllone
  • clnoe
  • cloen
  • clonne
  • colne
  • lcone

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cclone1cllone1clnoe2cloen2clonne1colne2lcone2
Edit distance from "clone"

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 "clone"?
"clone" is spelled C-L-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \klon\.
What does "clone" mean?
As a noun, "clone" means: Ensemble des êtres vivants issus, par voie asexuée, d’un seul individu et possédant son patrimoine génétique.
What words are commonly confused with "clone"?
"clone" is commonly confused with "con", "coe", "CNE". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clone" is \klon\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clone" come from?
"clone" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Brett#19,462Denys#19,504banks#19,453divan#19,509

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Darren7 variantsdouala7 variantsAhmad7 variantstower7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list