klotz
\klɔt͡s\
The verdict
“klotz” is uncommon French (frequency #76,729 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,729
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de klotzen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-klotz · klotz · French
klotz · rank #76,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,729
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH kirin
Nearest frequency peer: kirin (-2 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 « klotz »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- khao
khao
23,277 corpus weight
- kidnappées
kidnappées
23,275 corpus weight
- kirin
kirin
23,274 corpus weight
- klotz
klotz
23,272 corpus weight
- Krieg
Krieg
23,270 corpus weight
- Kultur
Kultur
23,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « klotz » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | klotz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \klɔt͡s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « klotz » en français
Rare enough to double-check
klotz is uncommon French at frequency #76,729 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \klɔt͡s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de klotzen.".
Zero misspellings are on record for klotz in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is klotz, spelled K-L-O-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de klotzen.
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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