cliquent
\klik\
The verdict
“cliquent” is uncommon French (frequency #82,795 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,795
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cliquent · cliquent · French
cliquent · rank #82,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,795
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claustrophobe
Nearest frequency peer: claustrophobe (-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 « cliquent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- citronniers
citronniers
17,210 corpus weight
- clar
clar
17,208 corpus weight
- claustropho…
claustrophobe
17,207 corpus weight
- cliquent
cliquent
17,206 corpus weight
- Cloé
Cloé
17,204 corpus weight
- Clt
Clt
17,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cliquent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cliquent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \klik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cliquent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cliquent is uncommon French at frequency #82,795 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \klik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cliquent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cliquent, spelled C-L-I-Q-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe cliquer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe cliquer.
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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