clivant
\kli.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“clivant” is uncommon French (frequency #67,381 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,381
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui produit un clivage, qui divise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clivant · clivant · French
clivant · rank #67,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,381
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH climatologues
Nearest frequency peer: climatologues (-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 « clivant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cisalpine
cisalpine
32,623 corpus weight
- clignoter
clignoter
32,622 corpus weight
- climatologu…
climatologues
32,621 corpus weight
- clivant
clivant
32,620 corpus weight
- clochait
clochait
32,619 corpus weight
- clothes
clothes
32,618 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « clivant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clivant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kli.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « clivant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
clivant is uncommon French at frequency #67,381 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kli.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui produit un clivage, qui divise.".
No misspelling variants are generated for clivant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is clivant, spelled C-L-I-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui produit un clivage, qui divise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how clivant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…qui entend conduire Nicolas Sarkozy à « s'ouvrir » et à gommer ses aspects clivants, seule façon d'espérer l'emporter en 2012.
« Le président a été bon pédagogue sur la crise, mais il est plus clivant quand il propose des solutions » analyse Burno Jeanbart d'Opinionway.
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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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