cliquer
\kli.ke\
The verdict
“cliquer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,471. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,471
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfoncer et relâcher le bouton-poussoir (ou cliquet) d’une souris ou d’un dispositif similaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cliquer · cliquer · French
cliquer · rank #10,471 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,471
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH classer
Nearest frequency peer: classer (-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 « cliquer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choisissez
choisissez
89,533 corpus weight
- cinéaste
cinéaste
89,532 corpus weight
- classer
classer
89,531 corpus weight
- cliquer
cliquer
89,530 corpus weight
- comptez
comptez
89,529 corpus weight
- concrètes
concrètes
89,528 corpus weight
What this shows « cliquer » 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 | cliquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kli.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cliquer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cliquer (IPA \kli.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,471 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cliquer, with forms such as "ccliquer", "cilquer", and "cliqeur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "crique", "clouer", "cliquez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cliquer, spelled C-L-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enfoncer et relâcher le bouton-poussoir (ou cliquet) d’une souris ou d’un dispositif similaire.
- 2Émettre un bruit retentissant, résonner.
- 3Comprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cliquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cliquer sur un bouton, une icône, un hyperlien.
C’est un super-média pour vos super-vidéos de pubs car si elles sont cliquées et recliquées maintes fois, elles seront reprises à l’œil par les grands médias tels que la presse ou la télévision..
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccliquer
- cilquer
- cliqeur
- cliqquer
- cliquerr
- cliqure
- cliuqer
- clliquer
- clqiuer
- lciquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cliquer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cliquer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).