Which to use
“Clare” is a name and “clear” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #30,527
- “Clare” frequency rank
- #30,948
- “clear” frequency rank
- 61475
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Clare | clear |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Bourgade située dans le district de St Edmundsbury, dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre. | Clair, limpide. |
Letter map: Clare vs clear
Shared letters muted; letters that set Clare and clear apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Part-of-speech tell for Clare / clear
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Clare is aname and clearanadjective. On the page they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61475, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Clare is recorded at frequency rank #30,527, classified as aname. clear is at rank #30,948, tagged as anadj, pronounced \klɪə(ɹ)\.
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 61475, this pair ranks #92,053 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of Clare vs clear
Shared letters: acelr. Private to "Clare": -. Private to "clear": -.
"Clare" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "clear" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "Clare" and "clear" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "Clare" or "clear" show up more?
After this comparison
Pair "Clare" vs "clear" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "Clare" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "clear" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #92,053 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Clare" and "clear" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Clare vs clavel". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #92,053 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.