cligne
\kliɲ\
The verdict
“cligne” is uncommon French (frequency #55,148 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,148
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cligner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cligne · cligne · French
cligne · rank #55,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,148
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Clarendon
Nearest frequency peer: Clarendon (-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 « cligne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cintrée
cintrée
44,857 corpus weight
- circonspect…
circonspection
44,856 corpus weight
- clamant
clamant
44,855 corpus weight
- Clarendon
Clarendon
44,854 corpus weight
- cligne
cligne
44,853 corpus weight
- CMM
CMM
44,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cligne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cligne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kliɲ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cligne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cligne is uncommon French at frequency #55,148 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kliɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cligne, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cligne, spelled C-L-I-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cligner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe cligner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe cligner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe cligner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe cligner.
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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