clownerie
\klun.ʁi\
The verdict
“clownerie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Farce ou tour de clown ou faisant penser à un clown.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clownerie · clownerie · French
clownerie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clownerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klun.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clownerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clownerie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \klun.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Farce ou tour de clown ou faisant penser à un clown.".
clownerie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is clownerie, spelled C-L-O-W-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Farce ou tour de clown ou faisant penser à un clown.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clownerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un roman de ma vie ! Et moi qui avais toujours cru que la vie n’était pas un roman, – une clownerie, tout au plus !
Il y a peu de choses nouvelles sous le soleil en matière de clowneries sociales. Aristote a déjà donné des règles de paix sociale ; […].
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.