clinquant
\klɛ̃.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“clinquant” is uncommon French (frequency #54,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,480
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie ce qui se donne à voir comme artificiellement brillant ou prétentieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clinquant · clinquant · French
clinquant · rank #54,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,480
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cloisonnement
Nearest frequency peer: cloisonnement (+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 « clinquant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Chéreau
Chéreau
45,525 corpus weight
- circo
circo
45,524 corpus weight
- classifier
classifier
45,523 corpus weight
- clinquant
clinquant
45,521 corpus weight
- cloisonneme…
cloisonnement
45,520 corpus weight
- collectivis…
collectivisation
45,518 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clinquant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clinquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \klɛ̃.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clinquant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clinquant is uncommon French at frequency #54,480 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \klɛ̃.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualifie ce qui se donne à voir comme artificiellement brillant ou prétentieux.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for clinquant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is clinquant, spelled C-L-I-N-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qualifie ce qui se donne à voir comme artificiellement brillant ou prétentieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clinquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le « Virtuosa » est un vaisseau clinquant, joyeux, coloré, kitch, digne représentant assumé du gigantisme et de tous les superlatifs, devant lequel il est difficile de rester impassible.
Par son travail sur les costumes, Sophie Desmarais a mis en évidence les contrastes entre MTS [Marie-Stella, ainsi surnommée par ses camarades de classe] et Marie-Clown. Cheveux gaufrés, vêtements amples couleur saumon et bas de nylon donnent à la première une allure de gamine venue tout droit des années 80. À l’opposé, la seconde est clairement de son te…
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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