clinker
French, noun\klin.kœʁ\
clinker is spelled C-L-I-N-K-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 118,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clinker is a French masculine noun meaning “clinker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matériau entrant dans la composition du ciment, composé entre autre de différents silicates de calcium”.
What does clinker mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclinker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matériau entrant dans la composition du ciment, composé entre autre de différents silicates de calcium.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of clinker
- clinkers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clinker?
- \klin.kœʁ\
- \klɛ̃.kɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clinker in French?
clinker appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).