cloués
\klu.e\
The verdict
“cloués” is uncommon French (frequency #51,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,964
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de cloué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloues · cloués · French
cloués · rank #51,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,964
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clipper
Nearest frequency peer: clipper (-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 « cloués »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ciments
ciments
48,040 corpus weight
- CLI
CLI
48,039 corpus weight
- clipper
clipper
48,038 corpus weight
- cloués
cloués
48,037 corpus weight
- codée
codée
48,036 corpus weight
- cognée
cognée
48,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cloués » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloués |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klu.e\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cloués » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cloués is uncommon French at frequency #51,964 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klu.e\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de cloué.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cloués, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 cloués, spelled C-L-O-U-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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