cluzel
\kly.zɛl\
The verdict
“cluzel” is uncommon French (frequency #73,018 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,018
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abri construit sous terre servant de refuge, de cachette notamment à l’époque des Cathares.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cluzel · cluzel · French
cluzel · rank #73,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,018
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cloportes
Nearest frequency peer: cloportes (-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 « cluzel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- classifiées
classifiées
26,986 corpus weight
- cloportes
cloportes
26,984 corpus weight
- cluzel
cluzel
26,983 corpus weight
- clôturera
clôturera
26,982 corpus weight
- CNCDH
CNCDH
26,981 corpus weight
- cobras
cobras
26,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cluzel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cluzel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kly.zɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cluzel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cluzel is uncommon French at frequency #73,018 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kly.zɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abri construit sous terre servant de refuge, de cachette notamment à l’époque des Cathares.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cluzel, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cluzel, spelled C-L-U-Z-E-L.
Definition
- 1Abri construit sous terre servant de refuge, de cachette notamment à l’époque des Cathares.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cluzel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin les nombreux souterrains-refuges du Sud-Ouest, creusés de main d'homme, portent le nom de cluzel, qui s'est figé dans le Cluzel (Pontcircq, Lot), le Cluzeau (Houlette, Charente).
En novembre on le trouve hébergé par Raymond Gérard, d'Aurin, où il tombe à nouveau malade, passe chez Raymond de Maureville, qui, trop surveillé, l'adresse à Guilhem Sicre où il s'enferme dans un cluzel, cache souterraine maçonnée et soigneusement aménagée que les malheurs du temps faisaient fleurir...
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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