cliquet
\kli.kɛ\
The verdict
“cliquet” is uncommon French (frequency #58,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,501
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit levier dont on se sert pour empêcher qu’une roue à rochet qui tourne dans un sens puisse se mouvoir dans un sens contraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cliquet · cliquet · French
cliquet · rank #58,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citroen
Nearest frequency peer: citroen (-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 « cliquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- chouinard
chouinard
41,503 corpus weight
- Christel
Christel
41,502 corpus weight
- citroen
citroen
41,501 corpus weight
- cliquet
cliquet
41,500 corpus weight
- cléments
cléments
41,499 corpus weight
- codirecteur
codirecteur
41,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cliquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cliquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cliquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cliquet is uncommon French at frequency #58,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kli.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit levier dont on se sert pour empêcher qu’une roue à rochet qui tourne dans un sens puisse se mouvoir dans un sens contraire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cliquet, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cliquet, spelled C-L-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Petit levier dont on se sert pour empêcher qu’une roue à rochet qui tourne dans un sens puisse se mouvoir dans un sens contraire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cliquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cliquets se lèvent quand leurs électros respectifs reçoivent le courant, c’est à dire quand les interrupteurs à tube de mercure des relais sont fermés.
L’image usuelle est celle d’une roue dentée à dents asymétriques jointe à un cliquet interdisant l’un des sens de rotation.
This word in other languages
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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