closet
\klɔ.zɛ\
The verdict
“closet” is uncommon French (frequency #91,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,536
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit enclos formé de filets verticaux tendus sur des perches, pour retenir le poisson à marée descendante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-closet · closet · French
closet · rank #91,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,536
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clever
Nearest frequency peer: clever (-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 « closet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chromium
chromium
8,470 corpus weight
- citerons
citerons
8,468 corpus weight
- civette
civette
8,467 corpus weight
- clever
clever
8,466 corpus weight
- closet
closet
8,465 corpus weight
- cocontracta…
cocontractant
8,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « closet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | closet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « closet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
closet is uncommon French at frequency #91,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klɔ.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit enclos formé de filets verticaux tendus sur des perches, pour retenir le poisson à marée descendante.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for closet, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 closet, spelled C-L-O-S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit enclos formé de filets verticaux tendus sur des perches, pour retenir le poisson à marée descendante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how closet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une douzaine de perches, de 7 à 8 pieds de hauteur, suffisent pour faire un closet. On prend dans ces parcs, des Mulets, des Lieux, des Colins, etc.
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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