cloud
\klawd\
The verdict
“cloud” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,165. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,165
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cloud computing ; informatique en nuage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloud · cloud · French
cloud · rank #7,165 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,165
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clause
Nearest frequency peer: clause (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cloud »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cherchait
cherchait
92,839 corpus weight
- Chirac
Chirac
92,838 corpus weight
- clause
clause
92,837 corpus weight
- cloud
cloud
92,836 corpus weight
- comble
comble
92,835 corpus weight
- commenter
commenter
92,834 corpus weight
What this shows « cloud » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klawd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cloud »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cloud (IPA \klawd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,165 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cloud, with forms such as "ccloud", "clloud", and "clodu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cou", "cod", "coup", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cloud, spelled C-L-O-U-D.
Definition
- 1Cloud computing ; informatique en nuage.
- 2Nuage particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cloud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cloud intéressera plus fortement les entreprises dont la taille a une forte variabilité. C'est le cas des entreprises en forte croissance, des groupes en construction ou des structures qui souhaitent « départementaliser » leur organisation.
Le système de Google, en revanche, décharge son traitement sur le cloud. Tout ce que vous dites à votre téléphone Android est retransmis aux centres de données de Google, où des serveurs ultra-puissants appliquent des modèles statistiques pour comprendre vos propos.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccloud
- clloud
- clodu
- cloudd
- cluod
- colud
- lcoud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cloud - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cloud", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).