cloutier
\klu.tje\
The verdict
“cloutier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,264. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,264
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fabrique ou qui vend des clous pour les souliers et la ferrure des chevaux, mulets, ânes et bœufs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cloutier · cloutier · French
cloutier · rank #21,264 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,264
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chaussette
Nearest frequency peer: chaussette (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cloutier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bénéfiques
bénéfiques
78,740 corpus weight
- Cergy
Cergy
78,739 corpus weight
- chaussette
chaussette
78,738 corpus weight
- cloutier
cloutier
78,737 corpus weight
- collecteur
collecteur
78,736 corpus weight
- collusion
collusion
78,735 corpus weight
What this shows « cloutier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloutier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klu.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cloutier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cloutier (IPA \klu.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,264 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cloutier, with forms such as "ccloutier", "clloutier", and "clotuier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "coûter", "côtier", "Courier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cloutier, spelled C-L-O-U-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fabrique ou qui vend des clous pour les souliers et la ferrure des chevaux, mulets, ânes et bœufs.
- 2Élève ou ancien élève de l’École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cloutier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait dedans le temps à Gespunsart un homme, rusé comme un renard, qu'on appelait le Mayon. Maintes fois il tuait des cochons (c'était son métier), qu'il vendait aux cloutiers du village.
— Entré tard au séminaire, Pierre-Louis Péchenard exerça d'abord, comme son père, le métier d'ouvrier cloutier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccloutier
- clloutier
- clotuier
- clouiter
- clouteir
- cloutierr
- cloutire
- clouttier
- cluotier
- colutier
- lcoutier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cloutier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).