clopinettes
\klɔ.pi.nɛt\
The verdict
“clopinettes” is uncommon French (frequency #86,549 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,549
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peu de choses, presque rien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clopinettes · clopinettes · French
clopinettes · rank #86,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,549
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cloisonnés
Nearest frequency peer: cloisonnés (-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 « clopinettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clairvoyante
clairvoyante
13,456 corpus weight
- classroom
classroom
13,455 corpus weight
- cloisonnés
cloisonnés
13,453 corpus weight
- clopinettes
clopinettes
13,452 corpus weight
- cloutés
cloutés
13,450 corpus weight
- cléricaux
cléricaux
13,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clopinettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clopinettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.pi.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clopinettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clopinettes is uncommon French at frequency #86,549 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɔ.pi.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peu de choses, presque rien.".
clopinettes has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clopinettes, spelled C-L-O-P-I-N-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Peu de choses, presque rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clopinettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; et quand bien même le directeur aurait été si bon qu’au lieu de quarante roubles de primes, il en aurait donné quarante-cinq, il ne serait resté malgré tout que des clopinettes, qui, dans un capital de manteau, n’auraient représenté qu’une goutte dans la mer.
V’là qu’on s’était décarcassés pour rien, parguienne, qu’on s’était mis en frais pour des clopinettes.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "clopinettes"?
What does "clopinettes" mean?
How do you pronounce "clopinettes"?
What language does "clopinettes" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clopinettes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).