club
\klœb\
The verdict
“club” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #550. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #550
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Association groupant des membres ayant des activités collectives, des intérêts communs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-club · club · French
club · rank #550 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #550
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH action
Nearest frequency peer: action (-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 « club »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- roi
roi
99,454 corpus weight
- venir
venir
99,453 corpus weight
- action
action
99,452 corpus weight
- club
club
99,451 corpus weight
- culture
culture
99,450 corpus weight
- cœur
cœur
99,449 corpus weight
What this shows « club » 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 | club |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klœb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « club »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around club (IPA \klœb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #550 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for club, with forms such as "cclub", "clbu", and "cllub". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cul", "cru", "cou", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is club, spelled C-L-U-B.
Definition
- 1Association groupant des membres ayant des activités collectives, des intérêts communs.
- 2Groupe politique durant la Révolution.
- 3Canne à spatule de bois ou d’acier, utilisée pour frapper la balle de golf.
- 4Boîte de nuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how club appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une campagne de crowdfunding a d’ailleurs été lancée. Le but est de réunir la maximum de dons pour aider les clubs de sauvetage côtier de Nouvelle-Aquitaine à acquérir du matériel et développer la formation des jeunes MNS.
La maison est toujours pleine de monde, des repas avec animation, des concours de rummikub, de boules, des conférences, la chorale, le club informatique, le karaoké…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclub
- clbu
- cllub
- clubb
- culb
- lcub
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of club - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).