cloutés

\klu.te\

/\klu.te\/ adj

The verdict

“cloutés” is uncommon French (frequency #86,551 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,551
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de clouté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cloutes · cloutés · French

cloutés · rank #86,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,551
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cléricaux

Nearest frequency peer: cléricaux (+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 « cloutés »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cloutés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cloutés
PropertyValue
Headwordcloutés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\klu.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#86,551
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « cloutés » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).cloutéstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « cléricaux » (#86,552), « clopinettes » (#86,549), « CNRC » (#86,553). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cloutés » est au #86,551. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cloutés is uncommon French at frequency #86,551 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de clouté.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cloutés, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cloutés, spelled C-L-O-U-T-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de clouté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cloutés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La liste de ce que je vomis est plus longue que la barbe de votre Seigneur sénile. Les toilettages, la coupe des griffes, la tonte, les manteaux haute couture pour bichons, chihuahuas et caniches, les croquettes spéciales amaigrissantes, raffermissantes, beauté du pelage et bla bla bla, les muselières, les colliers cloutés, diamantés, électriques, les édu…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cloutés"?
"cloutés" is spelled C-L-O-U-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \klu.te\.
What does "cloutés" mean?
As an adjective, "cloutés" means: Masculin pluriel de clouté.
How do you pronounce "cloutés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cloutés" is \klu.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cloutés" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cloutés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list