cliquant
\kli.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“cliquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,902
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Les agréments recherchés, prétentieux et trop brillants du style, en parlant des productions de l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cliquant · cliquant · French
cliquant · rank #17,902 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,902
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cody
Nearest frequency peer: Cody (+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 « cliquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- challenger
challenger
82,103 corpus weight
- chaotique
chaotique
82,102 corpus weight
- ciao
ciao
82,101 corpus weight
- cliquant
cliquant
82,099 corpus weight
- Cody
Cody
82,098 corpus weight
- commandemen…
commandements
82,095 corpus weight
What this shows « cliquant » 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 | cliquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cliquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cliquant (IPA \kli.kɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,902 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Les agréments recherchés, prétentieux et trop brillants du style, en parlant des productions de l’esprit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cliquant, with forms such as "ccliquant", "cilquant", and "cliqaunt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "croquant", "craquant", "choquant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cliquant, spelled C-L-I-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Les agréments recherchés, prétentieux et trop brillants du style, en parlant des productions de l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cliquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous ces costumes, tant regrettés des romantiques, font rire; ils donnent l’horreur du cliquant et de l’oripeau.
Elle était en robe du soir avec des cliquants de strass aux oreilles et des ongles de canard laqué.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccliquant
- cilquant
- cliqaunt
- cliqquant
- cliquannt
- cliquantt
- cliquatn
- cliqunat
- cliuqant
- clliquant
- clqiuant
- lciquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cliquant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).