klagen

/\ˈklaːɡən\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

klagen is aFrenchverb. It means: Se plaindre (d’une perte). Pronounced \ˈklaːɡən\.

Key facts for klagen
PropertyValue
Headwordklagen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈklaːɡən\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

klagen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for klagen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈklaːɡən\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for klagen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 klagen, spelled K-L-A-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se plaindre (d’une perte).
  2. 2
    Porter plainte.
  3. 3
    Agir contre quelqu‘un en justice.
  4. 4
    Se plaindre, exprimer son mécontentement face à une situation.
  5. 5
    Raconter quelque chose de triste ou de désagréable.
  6. 6
    Demander une action en portant plainte.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "klagen"?
"klagen" is spelled K-L-A-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈklaːɡən\.
What does "klagen" mean?
As a verb, "klagen" means: Se plaindre (d’une perte).
How do you pronounce "klagen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "klagen" is \ˈklaːɡən\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "klagen" come from?
"klagen" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.