A wireless transmitter exhibits improved power de-rating reduction, which improves the power efficiency of non-constant envelop communication systems by mapping N first samples of a first discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a group of coded symbols to M sub-carriers according to a first sub-carrier mapping rule (212), performing a first inverse DFT (IDFT) on the M sub-carriers to provide M second samples (214), clipping the M second samples according to a clipping rule to provide M third samples (216), performing a second DFT on the M third samples (218), and applying a frequency domain mask to generate M clipped samples (220) which may be mapped to O subcarriers according to a predetermined second subcarrier mapping rule. The transmitter may be advantageously implemented within a single carrier transmission scheme, such as a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) uplink transmission scheme.