clôture électrique
\klo.ty.ʁ‿e.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“clôture électrique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif employé pour empêcher le franchissement d’une enceinte, par la mise sous tension d’un conducteur dépourvu de gaine isolante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clôture électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klo.ty.ʁ‿e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clôture électrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for clôture électrique is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klo.ty.ʁ‿e.lɛk.tʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dispositif employé pour empêcher le franchissement d’une enceinte, par la mise sous tension d’un conducteur dépourvu de gaine isolante.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clôture électrique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is clôture électrique, spelled C-L-Ô-T-U-R-E- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositif employé pour empêcher le franchissement d’une enceinte, par la mise sous tension d’un conducteur dépourvu de gaine isolante.
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Using “clôture électrique”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-L-Ô-T-U-R-E- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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