cliquetis
\klik.ti\
The verdict
“cliquetis” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,934
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit que font des armes blanches quand on les choque les unes contre les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cliquetis · cliquetis · French
cliquetis · rank #44,934 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,934
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinéphile
Nearest frequency peer: cinéphile (-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 « cliquetis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Chimay
Chimay
55,070 corpus weight
- cinéphile
cinéphile
55,068 corpus weight
- cliquetis
cliquetis
55,067 corpus weight
- cochet
cochet
55,066 corpus weight
- cocotier
cocotier
55,065 corpus weight
- collagène
collagène
55,064 corpus weight
What this shows « cliquetis » 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 | cliquetis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klik.ti\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cliquetis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cliquetis (IPA \klik.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,934 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cliquetis, with forms such as "ccliquetis", "cilquetis", and "cliqeutis". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "criquets", "cliques", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cliquetis, spelled C-L-I-Q-U-E-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Bruit que font des armes blanches quand on les choque les unes contre les autres.
- 2Bruit semblable que font certains autres corps sonores lorsqu’on les remue ou qu’on les choque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cliquetis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leurs ordres étaient étouffés par le cliquetis des armes et les cris assourdissants de ceux à qui ils s’adressaient.
Le vieillard et sa fille […] distinguèrent alors un bruit d'éperons et un cliquetis d'épées qui retentirent sous le sonore péristyle du château.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccliquetis
- cilquetis
- cliqeutis
- cliqquetis
- cliqueits
- cliquetiss
- cliquetsi
- cliquettis
- cliquteis
- cliuqetis
- clliquetis
- clqiuetis
- lciquetis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cliquetis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
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