clouté
The verdict
“clouté” is uncommon French (frequency #78,277 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,277
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est muni de clous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloute · clouté · French
clouté · rank #78,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clothing
Nearest frequency peer: clothing (-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 « clouté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cloclo
Cloclo
21,727 corpus weight
- closing
closing
21,726 corpus weight
- clothing
clothing
21,725 corpus weight
- clouté
clouté
21,724 corpus weight
- CNAV
CNAV
21,723 corpus weight
- cointreau
cointreau
21,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clouté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clouté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clouté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clouté is uncommon French at frequency #78,277 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est muni de clous.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clouté in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clouté, spelled C-L-O-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est muni de clous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clouté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marcas s'arrêta devant un présentoir rempli d'accessoires SM et prit une paire de menottes, finement cloutées à l'intérieur. Il secoua la tête en souriant. — Ce n'est pas le modèle homologué par la police nationale, chère madame.
Il fut brutal. Il exigea qu'elle lui offrit des bottes cloutées. Elle lui aurait tout promis, tout, et d'une voix qui s'enrouait.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).