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cleff

cleff is the obsolete form of clef.

Meaning of clef

Noun

clef (plural clefs)

  1. A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff

Forms of cleff

pluralcleffs

Questions about cleff

What is cleff the obsolete form of?
Cleff is the obsolete form of clef.

Words near cleff in the dictionary

  1. Cleethorpes
  2. cleeve
  3. cleeves
  4. clef
  5. clefamide
  6. cleff
  7. cleffer
  8. cleffers
  9. cleffs
  10. cleflike
  11. clefs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleff (page history and authors); clef (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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