clientélistes
\kli.jɑ̃.te.list\
The verdict
“clientélistes” is uncommon French (frequency #87,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,471
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de clientéliste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clientelistes · clientélistes · French
clientélistes · rank #87,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,471
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claymore
Nearest frequency peer: claymore (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « clientélistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- claqua
claqua
12,533 corpus weight
- clarifiée
clarifiée
12,532 corpus weight
- claymore
claymore
12,531 corpus weight
- clientélist…
clientélistes
12,530 corpus weight
- closerie
closerie
12,529 corpus weight
- coiffent
coiffent
12,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clientélistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clientélistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kli.jɑ̃.te.list\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #87,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clientélistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clientélistes is uncommon French at frequency #87,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kli.jɑ̃.te.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de clientéliste.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clientélistes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is clientélistes, spelled C-L-I-E-N-T-É-L-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de clientéliste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clientélistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce lundi, se tient le procès en diffamation intenté par l’ex-maire de Drancy contre la journaliste Eve Szeftel pour son livre Le Maire et les Barbares, dans lequel elle dénonçait notamment les pratiques clientélistes de Jean-Christophe Lagarde.
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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