clignement
\kliɲ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“clignement” is uncommon French (frequency #76,433 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,433
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de cligner des yeux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clignement · clignement · French
clignement · rank #76,433 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,433
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clubbing
Nearest frequency peer: clubbing (+2 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 « clignement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- clairette
clairette
23,572 corpus weight
- clam
clam
23,571 corpus weight
- clignement
clignement
23,568 corpus weight
- clubbing
clubbing
23,566 corpus weight
- clébard
clébard
23,565 corpus weight
- codant
codant
23,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clignement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clignement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kliɲ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clignement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clignement is uncommon French at frequency #76,433 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kliɲ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de cligner des yeux.".
clignement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is clignement, spelled C-L-I-G-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de cligner des yeux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clignement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La directrice sonne la femme de service et lui adresse un rapide clignement de connivence.
Synonyms
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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