clinic
\kli.ˈnik\
The verdict
“clinic” is uncommon French (frequency #62,866 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,866
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clinique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clinic · clinic · French
clinic · rank #62,866 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,866
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coa
Nearest frequency peer: coa (+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 « clinic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- claquements
claquements
37,138 corpus weight
- cler
cler
37,137 corpus weight
- clinic
clinic
37,135 corpus weight
- coa
coa
37,134 corpus weight
- coaxial
coaxial
37,133 corpus weight
- coccyx
coccyx
37,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clinic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « clinic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clinic is uncommon French at frequency #62,866 among 8,609 “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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).