clique
French, noun
clique is spelled C-L-I-Q-U-E (6 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clique is a French feminine noun meaning “clique” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cliquer. With an accent, cliqué is a different word: “past participle of cliquer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coterie, bande de gens qui veulent parvenir à quelque chose d’une manière peu honnête”.
What does clique mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclique
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of cliquer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Coterie, bande de gens qui veulent parvenir à quelque chose d’une manière peu honnête. 2. Bande d’amis. 3. Dans un graphe, sous-ensemble de sommets deux-à-deux adjacents. 4. Batterie-fanfare, formation musicale de cuivres et de tambours.
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 clique
- cliques plural
- cliquée feminine
- cliqués masculine plural
- cliquées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to clique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clique in French?
clique appears 5.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).