client
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,655
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
client is aFrenchnoun. It means: Romain qui se plaçait sous le patronage d’un citoyen noble ou puissant. Pronounced \kli.jɑ̃\. It ranks #1,655 in French word frequency. Often confused with clin and Clint.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | client |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for client is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kli.jɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,655 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for client, with forms such as "cclient", "cilent", and "cleint". 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, "clin", "Clint", "clins", 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 client, spelled C-L-I-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Romain qui se plaçait sous le patronage d’un citoyen noble ou puissant.
- 2Celui qui use des soins d’un médecin, d’un chirurgien, d’un dentiste, avocat ou autre membre d’une profession libérale.
- 3Celui qui achète chez un marchand, qui emploie habituellement un artisan, etc.
- 4Personne avec laquelle l’on se trouve en relation.
- 5Logiciel transmettant, par réseau, des requêtes à un serveur auquel il est connecté. Le client est l’une des deux composantes d’une application client-serveur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cclient,cilent,cleint,cliennt,clientt,clietn,clinet,cllient,lcient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for client
Misspelling Variants of "client"
Frequency rank: #1,655 in French
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Nearby French words
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