clignoter
\kli.ɲɔ.te\
The verdict
“clignoter” is uncommon French (frequency #67,379 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,379
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cligner des yeux fréquemment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clignoter · clignoter · French
clignoter · rank #67,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,379
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cisalpine
Nearest frequency peer: cisalpine (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “clignoter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chroma
chroma
32,625 corpus weight
- ciller
ciller
32,624 corpus weight
- cisalpine
cisalpine
32,623 corpus weight
- clignoter
clignoter
32,622 corpus weight
- climatologu…
climatologues
32,621 corpus weight
- clivant
clivant
32,620 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “clignoter” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clignoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kli.ɲɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “clignoter” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
clignoter is uncommon French at frequency #67,379 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kli.ɲɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for clignoter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is clignoter, spelled C-L-I-G-N-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cligner des yeux fréquemment.
- 2S’allumer et s’éteindre alternativement, en parlant d’une lumière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clignoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La voix claquait. Le vieux clignota comme si on lui eût tiré des amorces aux oreilles.
Il souleva la tête, et, clignotant, regarda autour de lui.
Synonyms
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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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