clanique
\kla.nik\
The verdict
“clanique” is uncommon French (frequency #72,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,187
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au clan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clanique · clanique · French
clanique · rank #72,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,187
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clameurs
Nearest frequency peer: clameurs (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « clanique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- circonvolut…
circonvolutions
27,817 corpus weight
- clain
clain
27,816 corpus weight
- clameurs
clameurs
27,815 corpus weight
- clanique
clanique
27,814 corpus weight
- clapets
clapets
27,813 corpus weight
- clarins
clarins
27,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clanique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clanique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kla.nik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clanique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clanique is uncommon French at frequency #72,187 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kla.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au clan.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for clanique in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clanique, spelled C-L-A-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au clan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clanique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’organisation politique bantou est des plus sommaires et se confond avec la vie clanique, les chefs de clans constituant l’autorité à la fois patriarcale et religieuse.
Les Lele sont matrilinéaires dans ce sens qu’ils ont pour partenaires claniques les descendants de leur mère.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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