cliniques
\kli.nik\
The verdict
“cliniques” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,080
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de clinique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cliniques · cliniques · French
cliniques · rank #8,080 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,080
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charmante
Nearest frequency peer: charmante (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cliniques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carter
carter
91,924 corpus weight
- cession
cession
91,923 corpus weight
- charmante
charmante
91,922 corpus weight
- cliniques
cliniques
91,921 corpus weight
- collines
collines
91,919 corpus weight
- collèges
collèges
91,918 corpus weight
What this shows « cliniques » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cliniques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kli.nik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cliniques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cliniques (IPA \kli.nik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,080 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de clinique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cliniques, with forms such as "ccliniques", "cilniques", and "cliinques". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cliques", "cyniques", "coniques", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cliniques, spelled C-L-I-N-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de clinique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cliniques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des essais cliniques ont eu pour but de radiosensibiliser des tumeurs pour lesquelles des arguments indirects laissaient envisager l’existence de cellules hypoxiques (tumeurs cérébrales, tumeurs du col utérin ou tumeurs ORL).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccliniques
- cilniques
- cliinques
- cliniqeus
- cliniqques
- cliniquess
- cliniquse
- cliniuqes
- clinniques
- clinqiues
- clliniques
- clniiques
- lciniques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cliniques - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).