clore
French, verb/klɔʁ/
clore is spelled C-L-O-R-E (5 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clore is a French verb meaning “close (put an end to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fermer, enfermer, mettre dans une enceinte”.
What does clore mean in English?
verb
- 1
close (put an end to)
Le débat est clos. / La discussion est close.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fermer, enfermer, mettre dans une enceinte. 2. Fermer, faire que ce qui était ouvert ne le soit plus. 3. Terminer. 4. Déclarer terminé.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of clore
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- closant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- clos participle past
- clôt indicative present singular
- closons first-person indicative plural
- closez indicative plural present
- closent indicative plural present
- clorai first-person future indicative
- cloras future indicative second-person
- clora future indicative singular
- clorons first-person future indicative
- clorez future indicative plural
- cloront future indicative plural
- clorais conditional first-person singular
- clorait conditional singular third-person
- clorions conditional first-person plural
- cloriez conditional plural second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clore?
- /klɔʁ/
- \klɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to clore
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clore in French?
clore appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).