Clovis

\klɔ.vis\

/\klɔ.vis\/ name

The verdict

“Clovis” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,668
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin français.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clovis · Clovis · French

Clovis · rank #20,668 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,668
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Claudine

Nearest frequency peer: Claudine (-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 « Clovis »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Clovis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Clovis vs crois
50% similar
Clovis vs colis
50% similar
Clovis vs Covid
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Clovis
PropertyValue
HeadwordClovis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\klɔ.vis\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,668
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Clovis »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Clovisse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Claudine » (#20,667), « clémentine » (#20,669), « chenille » (#20,666). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Clovis » est au #20,668. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Clovis (IPA \klɔ.vis\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin français.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clovis, with forms such as "cclovis", "cllovis", and "cloivs". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "crois", "colis", "Covid", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Clovis, spelled C-L-O-V-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin français.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Mon agitation était si grande qu’à l’entrée du parc, je me suis arrêté longtemps pour regarder le vieux jardinier Clovis fagotant du bois mort comme à l’ordinaire.
  2. Parmi les films en compétition, on trouve notamment Les Têtes givrées, avec Claudia Tagbo et Clovis Cornillac, ou Les Complices, avec François Damiens.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cclovis
  • cllovis
  • cloivs
  • cloviss
  • clovsi
  • clovvis
  • clvois
  • colvis
  • lcovis

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clovis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cclovis1cllovis1cloivs2cloviss1clovsi2clovvis1clvois2colvis2
Edit distance from "Clovis"

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 "Clovis"?
"Clovis" is spelled C-L-O-V-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \klɔ.vis\.
What does "Clovis" mean?
As a proper noun, "Clovis" means: Prénom masculin français.
What words are commonly confused with "Clovis"?
"Clovis" is commonly confused with "crois", "colis", "Covid". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Clovis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Clovis" is \klɔ.vis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Clovis" come from?
"Clovis" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list