clinical
\ˈklɪnɪkəl\
The verdict
“clinical” is uncommon French (frequency #53,858 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,858
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clinique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clinical · clinical · French
clinical · rank #53,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,858
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clament
Nearest frequency peer: clament (-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 « clinical »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- citrate
citrate
46,145 corpus weight
- clament
clament
46,144 corpus weight
- clinical
clinical
46,143 corpus weight
- cloque
cloque
46,142 corpus weight
- cogiter
cogiter
46,141 corpus weight
- colique
colique
46,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clinical » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clinical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈklɪnɪkəl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clinical » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clinical is uncommon French at frequency #53,858 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈklɪnɪkəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clinique.".
clinical doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clinical, spelled C-L-I-N-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Clinique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clinical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To improve nutritional status among patients, the Nutrition Assessment, Counseling and Support (NACS) approach integrates supplemental feeding and nutritional counseling into clinical HIV care regimens.
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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