CLI
The verdict
“CLI” is uncommon French (frequency #51,962 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,962
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interface en ligne de commande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cli · CLI · French
CLI · rank #51,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,962
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH ciments
Nearest frequency peer: ciments (-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 « CLI »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- châtaigniers
châtaigniers
48,042 corpus weight
- Châteauguay
Châteauguay
48,041 corpus weight
- ciments
ciments
48,040 corpus weight
- CLI
CLI
48,039 corpus weight
- clipper
clipper
48,038 corpus weight
- cloués
cloués
48,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CLI » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CLI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CLI » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CLI is uncommon French at frequency #51,962 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interface en ligne de commande.".
CLI doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 CLI, spelled C-L-I.
Definition
- 1Interface en ligne de commande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CLI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fonction intègre une « trousse » nommée Developer Tools, qui inclut notamment une nouvelle CLI (interface en ligne de commande).
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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