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Date "CLAIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
"CLAIR" is a common misspelling or typo for: chair, claim, clear. |
Crosswords: CLAIR |
| Etymologies containing "CLAIR": Clairaudience. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CLAIR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bright, broad, clear, distinct, elucidative, fair, light, lucid, noticeable, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plump, specific, thin, unclouded). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Clair, I've told you before (Clair; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) Oh! Clair, Clair (Clair; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Clair de terre (1970) Cinéma de notre temps: René Clair (1969) Un clair de lune Maubeuge (1962) | |
Song Titles | Clair (performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Clair V. Broome, M.D., Acting Director, CDC, 1997. Also served as Deputy Director, CDC, 1994. Credit: CDC. |  | NRCS employee, Clair Klock, checking drip irrigation on Klock Farms. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | Botanist Clair Button collecting specimen. Credit: John Craig. |  | C. St. Clair Drake. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Ice yachting on Lake St. Clair, waiting for the wind. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Venice of America, Ste. [sic] Clair Flats, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | St. Clair Flats, flag at Morgan's. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Making a purchase at farmer's roadside stand, Eau Clair County, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Saint Clair (vicinity), Pennsylvania. The ghost town of Lorain near Saint Clair. The P.& R.I.& C. colliery here was closed down eight years ago and all "company houses" excepting two were removed. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | St. Clair River at Port Huron, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "CLAIR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "CLAIR" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85.71% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CLAIR" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Clair | First name Female | 3,000 | 1,942 |
| Clair | First name Male | 8,000 | 754 |
| Clair | Last name | 2,000 | 7,493 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "CLAIR": Cape Saint Clair ♦ en clair ♦ Point Clair ♦ Saint Clair ♦ Saint Clair Shor ♦ St. Clair ♦ St. Clair County ♦ St. Clair Shores ♦ Upper St. Clair. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CLAIR": Clair-obscur. | |
Ending with "CLAIR": nie-clair, Saint-clair. | |
Containing "CLAIR": Palm River-Clair Mel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CLAIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | in klare taal opgenomen gesprek (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | interception fournie en clair (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | in Klarform festgelegte Überwachung (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διάθεση των τηλεπικοινωνιακών υπηρεσιών σε αποκωδικοποιημένη μορφή (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | comunicazione intercettata in forma non codificata (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airclay comunicação interceptada transmitida decifrada (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) клэр (claire). (various references) comunicación interceptada presentada claramente (intercepted communication provided en clair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CLAIR": clairaudience, clairaudiences, clairaudient, clairaudiently, clairvoyance, clairvoyances, clairvoyant, clairvoyantly, clairvoyants. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CLAIR": eclair. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CLAIR": eclaircissement, eclaircissements, eclairs. (additional references) | |
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"CLAIR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Celauro, Claar, Clai, claiv, Clari, Clazie, cliar, clir, Culcairn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: aril, carl, laic, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial. | |
-2 letters: ail, air, arc, car, lac, lar, ria. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, ar, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: archil, carlin, caroli, chiral, citral, curial, eclair, garlic, lacier, lorica, racial, racily, rictal, uracil. | |
+2 letters: acridly, acrylic, archils, article, auricle, baldric, caliber, calibre, caliper, caloric, calorie, carinal, cariole, carline, carling, carlins, carlish, caviler, charily, charlie, chorial, ciliary, citrals, claimer, claries, clarify, clarion, clarity, clarkia, clavier, clayier, coalier, cordial, cranial, crazily, crissal, crucial, curtail, decrial, eclairs, garlics, glacier, gracile, loricae, lyrical, miracle, rachial, radical, radicel, radicle, railcar, recital, reclaim, replica, scalier, scarily, scribal, triclad, uracils, valeric, vicarly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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