conclave
\kɔ̃.klav\
The verdict
“conclave” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,475. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,475
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où sont enfermés les cardinaux âgés de moins de 80 ans réunis en assemblée pour élire le pape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conclave · conclave · French
conclave · rank #34,475 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,475
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compétiteur
Nearest frequency peer: compétiteur (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « conclave »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- comparatifs
comparatifs
65,529 corpus weight
- comptabilise
comptabilise
65,528 corpus weight
- compétiteur
compétiteur
65,527 corpus weight
- conclave
conclave
65,526 corpus weight
- condensateur
condensateur
65,525 corpus weight
- conduise
conduise
65,524 corpus weight
What this shows « conclave » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conclave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.klav\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conclave »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around conclave (IPA \kɔ̃.klav\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,475 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for conclave, with forms such as "cconclave", "cnoclave", and "cocnlave". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "conclue", "conclure", "concave", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 conclave, spelled C-O-N-C-L-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où sont enfermés les cardinaux âgés de moins de 80 ans réunis en assemblée pour élire le pape.
- 2Désigne l’assemblée elle-même.
- 3Assemblée délibérante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conclave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On prévoyait donc un conclave long et un nombre élevé de scrutins.
Il aurait donc pu être élu dans un conclave. Quel genre de pape aurait-il été?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconclave
- cnoclave
- cocnlave
- concalve
- concclave
- conclaev
- conclavve
- concllave
- conclvae
- conlcave
- connclave
- ocnclave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conclave - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conclave", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).