clientélisme

Name: clientélisme, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\kli.jɑ̃.te.lism\

/\kli.jɑ̃.te.lism\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“clientélisme” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,694
frequency rank, French: 8,609
“C” headwords: 19
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relation qui unissait un patron à son client.

Corpus desk

Index FR-clientelisme · clientélisme · French

clientélisme · rank #29,694 · 19 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #29,694
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 19 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,609
PHOTO-FINISH citrons

Nearest frequency peer: citrons (-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.

citizen

70,309
citrons

70,308
clientélisme

70,307
clins

70,306
cocos

70,305
colisée

70,304

What this shows « clientélisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for clientélisme
Property	Value
Headword	clientélisme
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\kli.jɑ̃.te.lism\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#29,694
Misspellings tracked	19
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clientélisme »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).clientélismese place ici:

#29,694

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « citrons » (#29,693), « clins » (#29,695), « citizen » (#29,692). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « clientélisme » est au #29,694. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around clientélisme (IPA \kli.jɑ̃.te.lism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,694 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for clientélisme, with forms such as "cclientélisme", "cilentélisme", and "cleintélisme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clientélisme, spelled C-L-I-E-N-T-É-L-I-S-M-E.

Definition

1
Relation qui unissait un patron à son client.
2
Relations d’intérêt entre les hommes politiques et les citoyens, échange de faveurs (commission, appel d’offre attribué préférentiellement contre vote et soutien à la campagne électorale, etc.).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how clientélisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

La société romaine des origines s’appuie sur le clientélisme et les gens les plus influentes dirigent au sein d’assemblées appelées les curiae (curies).
Ce retour, nous l'avons vu, n'est pas la simple rémanence d'un passé tribal et paysan, mais la reconstitution dans une société moderne de modes traditionnels de loyauté et d'exercice du pouvoir : alliances matrimoniales, solidarité des corporations, clientélisme, c'est-à-dire échange de la loyauté politique contre une prébende matérielle.

Antonyms

méritocratie

This word in other languages

patronage(English)Klientelpolitik(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

cclientélisme
cilentélisme
cleintélisme
clienntélisme
clientelisme
clientléisme
clienttélisme
clientéilsme
clientélimse
clientélisem
clientélismme
clientélissme
clientéllisme
clientélsime
clienétlisme
clietnélisme
clinetélisme
cllientélisme
lcientélisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clientélisme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

Edit distance from "clientélisme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clientélisme"?

"clientélisme" is spelled C-L-I-E-N-T-É-L-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kli.jɑ̃.te.lism\.

What does "clientélisme" mean?

As a noun, "clientélisme" means: Relation qui unissait un patron à son client.

What are common misspellings of "clientélisme"?

Common misspellings include "cclientélisme", "cilentélisme", "cleintélisme", "clienntélisme", "clientelisme". The correct spelling is "clientélisme".

How do you pronounce "clientélisme"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "clientélisme" is \kli.jɑ̃.te.lism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "clientélisme" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clientélisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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