clouée
\klu.e\
The verdict
“clouée” is uncommon French (frequency #55,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,824
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de cloué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clouee · clouée · French
clouée · rank #55,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,824
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cligner
Nearest frequency peer: cligner (-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 « clouée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cires
cires
44,181 corpus weight
- cligner
cligner
44,178 corpus weight
- clouée
clouée
44,177 corpus weight
- coccinelles
coccinelles
44,176 corpus weight
- cocker
cocker
44,175 corpus weight
- colony
colony
44,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clouée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clouée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klu.e\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clouée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clouée is uncommon French at frequency #55,824 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klu.e\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de cloué.".
clouée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is clouée, spelled C-L-O-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de cloué.
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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