éclairer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,420
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
éclairer is aFrenchverb. It means: Apporter de la lumière dans un endroit sombre. Pronounced \e.kle.ʁe\. It ranks #9,420 in French word frequency. Often confused with éclater and éclairs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclairer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kle.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for éclairer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.kle.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,420 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for éclairer, with forms such as "célairer", "eclairer", and "écalirer". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "éclater", "éclairs", "éclaireur", 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 éclairer, spelled É-C-L-A-I-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apporter de la lumière dans un endroit sombre.
- 2Apporter ou fournir une source de lumière à quelqu’un.
- 3Rendre compréhensible une idée, un concept. Faire comprendre à quelqu'un.
- 4Distribuer des lumières d’un tableau, y répandre des clairs avec intelligence.
- 5Aller au devant d’une troupe pour voir le terrain.
- 6ou Allumer (un appareil d'éclairage).
- 7Répandre de la clarté.
- 8Faire des éclairs, en parlant de la foudre.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: célairer,eclairer,écalirer,écclairer,éclaierr,éclairerr,éclairre,éclairrer,éclarier,écliarer,écllairer,élcairer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for éclairer
Misspelling Variants of "éclairer"
Frequency rank: #9,420 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "éclairer"?
What does "éclairer" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "éclairer"?
How do you pronounce "éclairer"?
What language does "éclairer" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter É in our French index: