clito
\kli.to\
The verdict
“clito” is uncommon French (frequency #51,360 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,360
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clitoris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clito · clito · French
clito · rank #51,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,360
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civilement
Nearest frequency peer: civilement (-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 « clito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cirage
cirage
48,644 corpus weight
- circulatoire
circulatoire
48,643 corpus weight
- civilement
civilement
48,642 corpus weight
- clito
clito
48,641 corpus weight
- Clotaire
Clotaire
48,640 corpus weight
- colporteur
colporteur
48,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.to\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clito is uncommon French at frequency #51,360 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kli.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clitoris.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clito in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is clito, spelled C-L-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Clitoris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne me suis jamais occupée de ce que tu fais de ta queue dans la journée, alors t’occupe pas de ce que je fais de mon clito la nuit. Compris ?
Clotilde qui tenait à sa tignasse comme à la framboise de son clito.
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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