clutch
\klœtʃ\
The verdict
“clutch” is uncommon French (frequency #56,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,494
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui parvient, souvent dans les dernières minutes d’une partie, à retourner en sa faveur l’issue de cette dernière, en parlant d’un joueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clutch · clutch · French
clutch · rank #56,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,494
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clouds
Nearest frequency peer: clouds (-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 « clutch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- civiliser
civiliser
43,510 corpus weight
- clouds
clouds
43,508 corpus weight
- clutch
clutch
43,507 corpus weight
- CME
CME
43,506 corpus weight
- cNp
cNp
43,505 corpus weight
- codées
codées
43,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clutch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clutch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klœtʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clutch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clutch is uncommon French at frequency #56,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klœtʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui parvient, souvent dans les dernières minutes d’une partie, à retourner en sa faveur l’issue de cette dernière, en parlant d’un joueur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clutch, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clutch, spelled C-L-U-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Qui parvient, souvent dans les dernières minutes d’une partie, à retourner en sa faveur l’issue de cette dernière, en parlant d’un joueur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clutch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent menés par les Danois lors de la finale de l’Euro de handball, dimanche, les Français se sont montrés clutch pour empocher leur quatrième titre continental au bout de la prolongation (33-31).
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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