Cluny
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,487
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Cluny is aFrenchname. It means: Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire. Pronounced \kly.ni\. Often confused with count and county.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cluny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \kly.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Cluny is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kly.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,487 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cluny, with forms such as "ccluny", "clluny", and "clnuy". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "count", "county", "club", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Cluny, spelled C-L-U-N-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
- 2Ordre monastique bénédictin dont la maison-mère est dans cette localité.
- 3Canton français, situé dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccluny,clluny,clnuy,clunny,clunyy,cluyn,culny,lcuny
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Cluny
Misspelling Variants of "Cluny"
Frequency rank: #23,487 in French
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