clinic
\kli.ˈnik\
The verdict
“clinic” is uncommon French (frequency #62,866 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,866
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Clinique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clinic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kli.ˈnik\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clinic” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
clinic is uncommon French at frequency #62,866 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kli.ˈnik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clinique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for clinic in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clinic, spelled C-L-I-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Clinique.
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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Using “clinic”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-L-I-N-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kli.ˈnik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.