clip
\klip\
The verdict
“clip” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,413
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vidéo musicale, œuvre multimédia, principalement audiovisuelle et communément courte, réalisée pour promouvoir une chanson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clip · clip · French
clip · rank #4,413 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,413
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clan
Nearest frequency peer: clan (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “clip”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chair
chair
95,591 corpus weight
- cherchez
cherchez
95,590 corpus weight
- clan
clan
95,589 corpus weight
- clip
clip
95,588 corpus weight
- collectivit…
collectivités
95,587 corpus weight
- compromis
compromis
95,586 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “clip” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | clip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klip\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “clip” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around clip (IPA \klip\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,413 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for clip, with forms such as "cclip", "cilp", and "clipp". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CP", "cri", "cup", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 clip, spelled C-L-I-P.
Definition
- 1Vidéo musicale, œuvre multimédia, principalement audiovisuelle et communément courte, réalisée pour promouvoir une chanson.
- 2Un contenu vidéo court, indépendamment de la présence d'une bande musicale
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], je n’avais rien vu d’aussi torride depuis un clip d’Enrique Iglesias sur MCM (groupe Lagardère) dans lequel l’Ibère chaudard se frottait le chorizo sur la partie arrière d’une jeune et plantureuse intellectuelle des pays de l’Est.
Cargo de nuit, qu’il a réalisé pour Axel Bauer, fut d’ailleurs le premier clip francophone à être programmé sur MTV aux États-Unis en 1984— l’autre atout du clip étant de chorégraphier les mouvements.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclip
- cilp
- clipp
- cllip
- clpi
- lcip
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clip - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clip", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "clip". Here's where to go from here.
- "clip" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "CP". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,413 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.