clic

/\klik\/ onomatopoeia

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,618

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

clic is anFrenchonomatopoeia. It means: Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement. Pronounced \klik\. It ranks #9,618 in French word frequency. Often confused with cri and CPI.

Key facts for clic
PropertyValue
Headwordclic
LanguageFrench
Part of speechOnomatopoeia
IPA\klik\
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,618
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of clic in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for clic is 4 letters long, classified as anonomatopoeia, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \klik\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,618 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for clic, with forms such as "cclic", "cilc", and "clci". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cri", "CPI", "CNC", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is clic, spelled C-L-I-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cclic,cilc,clci,clicc,cllic,lcic

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for clic

Misspelling Variants of "clic"

cclic5cilc4clci4clicc5cllic5lcic4
Misspelling Variants of "clic"

Frequency rank: #9,618 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clic"?
"clic" is spelled C-L-I-C. The IPA pronunciation is \klik\.
What does "clic" mean?
As an onomatopoeia, "clic" means: Onomatopée exprimant un bruit sec, un claquement.
What words are commonly confused with "clic"?
"clic" is commonly confused with "cri", "CPI", "CNC". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "clic"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clic" is \klik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "clic" come from?
"clic" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.