clot
\klo\
The verdict
“clot” is uncommon French (frequency #68,925 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,925
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de clore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clot · clot · French
clot · rank #68,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,925
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clamecy
Nearest frequency peer: Clamecy (-2 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 « clot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ciselés
ciselés
31,080 corpus weight
- clafoutis
clafoutis
31,079 corpus weight
- Clamecy
Clamecy
31,078 corpus weight
- clot
clot
31,076 corpus weight
- cocoon
cocoon
31,074 corpus weight
- colmatage
colmatage
31,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \klo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clot is uncommon French at frequency #68,925 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \klo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de clore.".
Zero misspellings are on record for clot in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is clot, spelled C-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de clore.
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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