cliente

/\kli.jɑ̃t\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,223

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

cliente is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme qui achète (des produits ou des services), vis-à-vis de son fournisseur. Pronounced \kli.jɑ̃t\. Often confused with Clint and crient.

Key facts for cliente
PropertyValue
Headwordcliente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kli.jɑ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,223
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cliente is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kli.jɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,223 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Femme qui achète (des produits ou des services), vis-à-vis de son fournisseur.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cliente, with forms such as "ccliente", "cilente", and "cleinte". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Clint", "crient", "clients", 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 cliente, spelled C-L-I-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme qui achète (des produits ou des services), vis-à-vis de son fournisseur.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccliente,cilente,cleinte,clienet,cliennte,clientte,clietne,clinete,clliente,lciente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cliente

Misspelling Variants of "cliente"

ccliente8cilente7cleinte7clienet7cliennte8clientte8clietne7clinete7
Misspelling Variants of "cliente"

Frequency rank: #14,223 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cliente"?
"cliente" is spelled C-L-I-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kli.jɑ̃t\.
What does "cliente" mean?
As a noun, "cliente" means: Femme qui achète (des produits ou des services), vis-à-vis de son fournisseur.
What words are commonly confused with "cliente"?
"cliente" is commonly confused with "Clint", "crient", "clients". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cliente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cliente" is \kli.jɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cliente" come from?
"cliente" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.