clous
French, noun/klu/
clous is spelled C-L-O-U-S (5 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clous is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of clou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Zone protégée par des clous dans un passage clouté”.
What does clous mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of clou
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Zone protégée par des clous dans un passage clouté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce clous?
- /klu/
- \klu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clous in French?
clous appears 4.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).