Cluj
The verdict
“Cluj” is uncommon French (frequency #69,692 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,692
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cluj-Napoca.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cluj · Cluj · French
Cluj · rank #69,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,692
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH climatisés
Nearest frequency peer: climatisés (-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 « Cluj »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cithare
cithare
30,312 corpus weight
- claveau
claveau
30,311 corpus weight
- climatisés
climatisés
30,310 corpus weight
- Cluj
Cluj
30,309 corpus weight
- cluse
cluse
30,308 corpus weight
- coconut
coconut
30,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cluj » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cluj |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cluj » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cluj is uncommon French at frequency #69,692 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cluj-Napoca.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cluj in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Cluj, spelled C-L-U-J.
Definition
- 1Cluj-Napoca.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cluj appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était né à Cluj, en Transylvanie. Les pogromes de 1927 l’en avaient chassé. Battu par les étudiants roumains, sa maison brûlée, la Thora souillée en place publique, il avait fui. À Cluj, il était marchand sur les marchés. Maintenant…
Depuis le hall de l’hôtel Radisson de Cluj où s’est installée la délégation française, juste en face du stade où se tiendra le match de ce soir, le sélectionneur qui dirigera l’équipe olympique dans un an aux JO de Paris a pris le temps de se confier sur sa méthode et ses attentes.
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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