clic
\klik\
The verdict
“clic” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,618
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clic · clic · French
clic · rank #9,618 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,618
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cire
Nearest frequency peer: cire (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “clic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- CFA
CFA
90,386 corpus weight
- chinoises
chinoises
90,385 corpus weight
- cire
cire
90,384 corpus weight
- clic
clic
90,383 corpus weight
- clin
clin
90,382 corpus weight
- cohen
cohen
90,381 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “clic” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \klik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “clic” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around clic (IPA \klik\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #9,618 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for clic, with forms such as "cclic", "cilc", and "clci". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cri", "CPI", "CNC", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 clic, spelled C-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Clic ! L’aiguille des minutes venait d’avancer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclic
- cilc
- clci
- clicc
- cllic
- lcic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clic - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "clic" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cri". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,618 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.