clérical
\kle.ʁi.kal\
The verdict
“clérical” is uncommon French (frequency #63,631 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,631
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au clergé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clerical · clérical · French
clérical · rank #63,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,631
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clémentines
Nearest frequency peer: clémentines (-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 « clérical »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- circonscrite
circonscrite
36,374 corpus weight
- ciselée
ciselée
36,373 corpus weight
- clémentines
clémentines
36,371 corpus weight
- clérical
clérical
36,370 corpus weight
- codeurs
codeurs
36,369 corpus weight
- comblant
comblant
36,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clérical » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clérical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kle.ʁi.kal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clérical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clérical is uncommon French at frequency #63,631 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kle.ʁi.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
clérical doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clérical, spelled C-L-É-R-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au clergé.
- 2Qui professe le cléricalisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clérical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fonctions cléricales.
Au temps de la République cléricale, la Société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul était une belle officine de surveillance sur les fonctionnaires de tout ordre et de tout grade.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).