clouds
\klawd\
The verdict
“clouds” is uncommon French (frequency #56,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,493
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cloud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clouds · clouds · French
clouds · rank #56,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,493
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clutch
Nearest frequency peer: clutch (+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 « clouds »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chums
chums
43,511 corpus weight
- civiliser
civiliser
43,510 corpus weight
- clouds
clouds
43,508 corpus weight
- clutch
clutch
43,507 corpus weight
- CME
CME
43,506 corpus weight
- cNp
cNp
43,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clouds » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clouds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klawd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clouds » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clouds is uncommon French at frequency #56,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klawd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cloud.".
clouds doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is clouds, spelled C-L-O-U-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cloud.
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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