clinicien
\kli.ni.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“clinicien” is uncommon French (frequency #52,571 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,571
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De clinique médicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clinicien · clinicien · French
clinicien · rank #52,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,571
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinoche
Nearest frequency peer: cinoche (-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 « clinicien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- châtelaine
châtelaine
47,434 corpus weight
- chérubins
chérubins
47,433 corpus weight
- cinoche
cinoche
47,431 corpus weight
- clinicien
clinicien
47,430 corpus weight
- cloaque
cloaque
47,429 corpus weight
- coiffes
coiffes
47,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clinicien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clinicien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kli.ni.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clinicien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clinicien is uncommon French at frequency #52,571 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kli.ni.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De clinique médicale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for clinicien in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clinicien, spelled C-L-I-N-I-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1De clinique médicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clinicien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hélène Romano, psychologue clinicienne et urgentiste au Samu 94, indique que «cette asphyxie dangereuse est notamment évoquée dans des films sadomasochistes».
This word in other languages
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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