clémentine

\kle.mɑ̃.tin\

/\kle.mɑ̃.tin\/ noun

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The verdict

“clémentine” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,669
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit comestible du clémentinier, semblable à une petite orange sans pépins et qui appartient à la famille des agrumes. Sont aussi parfois vendus sous cette appellation des tangors de petite taille...

Corpus desk

Index FR-clementine · clémentine · French

clémentine · rank #20,669 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,669
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Clovis

Nearest frequency peer: Clovis (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « clémentine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « clémentine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

clémentine vs clémente
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for clémentine
PropertyValue
Headwordclémentine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kle.mɑ̃.tin\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,669
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clémentine »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.clémentinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Clovis » (#20,668), « collants » (#20,670), « Claudine » (#20,667). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clémentine » est au #20,669. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around clémentine (IPA \kle.mɑ̃.tin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,669 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fruit comestible du clémentinier, semblable à une petite orange sans pépins et qui appartient à la famille des agrumes. Sont aussi parfois vendus sous cette appellation des tangors de petite taille...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for clémentine, with forms such as "cclémentine", "clementine", and "cllémentine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "clémente", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is clémentine, spelled C-L-É-M-E-N-T-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit comestible du clémentinier, semblable à une petite orange sans pépins et qui appartient à la famille des agrumes. Sont aussi parfois vendus sous cette appellation des tangors de petite taille, divers hybrides de mandariniers comme les clémenvillas ainsi que des satsumas (Citrus unshiu) et des hybrides de satsuma.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clémentine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La clémentine tend à remplacer la mandarine sur les marchés, et les variétés sont de plus en plus nombreuses.
  2. Bébé dépiautait une clémentine.

This word in other languages

clementine(English)Clementine(Deutsch)tangerina(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cclémentine
  • clementine
  • cllémentine
  • clméentine
  • cléemntine
  • clémenitne
  • clémenntine
  • clémentien
  • clémentinne
  • clémentnie
  • clémenttine
  • clémetnine
  • clémmentine
  • clémnetine
  • célmentine
  • lcémentine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clémentine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cclémentine1clementine1cllémentine1clméentine2cléemntine2clémenitne2clémenntine1clémentien2
Edit distance from "clémentine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clémentine"?
"clémentine" is spelled C-L-É-M-E-N-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kle.mɑ̃.tin\.
What does "clémentine" mean?
As a noun, "clémentine" means: Fruit comestible du clémentinier, semblable à une petite orange sans pépins et qui appartient à la famille des agrumes. Sont aussi parfois vendus sous cette appellation des tangors de petite taille...
What words are commonly confused with "clémentine"?
"clémentine" is commonly confused with "clémente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clémentine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clémentine" is \kle.mɑ̃.tin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clémentine" come from?
"clémentine" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clémentine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

bouleverser16 variantsarbitraires16 variantsadmirateurs16 variantsgraphismes16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list