clôturent

\klo.tyʁ\

/\klo.tyʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“clôturent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,554 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,554
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe clôturer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cloturent · clôturent · French

clôturent · rank #90,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,554
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH CNAF

Nearest frequency peer: CNAF (+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 « clôturent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clôturent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for clôturent
PropertyValue
Headwordclôturent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\klo.tyʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#90,554
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « clôturent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.clôturenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « CNAF » (#90,555), « classez » (#90,552), « codent » (#90,557). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clôturent » est au #90,554. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

clôturent is uncommon French at frequency #90,554 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \klo.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clôturent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clôturent, spelled C-L-Ô-T-U-R-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe clôturer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe clôturer.

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 "clôturent"?
"clôturent" is spelled C-L-Ô-T-U-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \klo.tyʁ\.
What does "clôturent" mean?
As a verb, "clôturent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe clôturer.
How do you pronounce "clôturent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clôturent" is \klo.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clôturent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clôturent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list