Which to use
“calquée” and “claquée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,628
- “calquée” frequency rank
- #48,985
- “claquée” frequency rank
- 95613
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | calquée | claquée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe calquer. | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe claquer. |
Where the spellings diverge
Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set calquée and claquée apart are highlighted. They share 6 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. calquée (\kal.ke\) and claquée (\kla.ke\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ only by swapping two adjacent letters (al ↔ la) - a transposition the eye reads straight past. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 95613, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
calquée is recorded at frequency rank #46,628, classified as averb, pronounced \kal.ke\. claquée is at rank #48,985, tagged as averb, pronounced \kla.ke\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 95613, this pair ranks #1,019 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of calquée vs claquée
Shared letters: acelqué. Private to "calquée": -. Private to "claquée": -.
"calquée" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV · "claquée" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVV