être en cloque
\ɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ klɔk\
The verdict
“être en cloque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être enceinte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etre-en-cloque · être en cloque · French
être en cloque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ê" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | être en cloque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ klɔk\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « être en cloque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
être en cloque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ.tʁ‿ɑ̃ klɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être enceinte.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for être en cloque, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 être en cloque, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -E-N- -C-L-O-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Être enceinte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how être en cloque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle lui chuchote que même sans être en cloque, elle veut bien se marier.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.