Cluedo
The verdict
“Cluedo” is uncommon French (frequency #79,162 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,162
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commercial d’un jeu de société de déduction où il faut trouver le coupable d’un crime, l’arme utilisée, et la pièce où il a eu lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cluedo · Cluedo · French
Cluedo · rank #79,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,162
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CMOS
Nearest frequency peer: CMOS (+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 « Cluedo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- citais
citais
20,843 corpus weight
- clairsemés
clairsemés
20,841 corpus weight
- Cluedo
Cluedo
20,839 corpus weight
- CMOS
CMOS
20,838 corpus weight
- coastal
coastal
20,837 corpus weight
- coaster
coaster
20,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cluedo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cluedo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cluedo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cluedo is uncommon French at frequency #79,162 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom commercial d’un jeu de société de déduction où il faut trouver le coupable d’un crime, l’arme utilisée, et la pièce où il a eu lieu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Cluedo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Cluedo, spelled C-L-U-E-D-O.
Definition
- 1Nom commercial d’un jeu de société de déduction où il faut trouver le coupable d’un crime, l’arme utilisée, et la pièce où il a eu lieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cluedo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré ce succès « so french », le top des jeux les plus vendus reste marqué par les mêmes titres depuis des décennies : Monopoly, Scrabble, Cluedo, Uno…
Cluedo est un jeu de société ancien car il a été inventé en 1943 en Angleterre.
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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