# clinic

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈklɪn.ɪk/ · frequency rank #5,015

## Definitions
1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
4. A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. A bed-ridden person
9. Someone who receives baptism on a sickbed.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “bed”), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”).

## Easily confused with
- **Clint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clinic-vs-clint)
- **cynic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clinic-vs-cynic)
- **clink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clinic-vs-clink)
- **critic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clinic-vs-critic)
- **clinical** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clinic-vs-clinical)
- **civic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/civic-vs-clinic)
- **cling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cling-vs-clinic)
- **cleric** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cleric-vs-clinic)
- **clinch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clinch-vs-clinic)
- **clingy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clingy-vs-clinic)

## Common misspellings (9)
`cclinic`, `cilnic`, `cliinc`, `clinci`, `clinicc`, `clinnic`, `cllinic`, `clniic`, `lcinic`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clinic