Which to use
“clip” and “clips” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,413
- “clip” frequency rank
- #10,126
- “clips” frequency rank
- 14539
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | clip | clips |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Vidéo musicale, œuvre multimédia, principalement audiovisuelle et communément courte, réalisée pour promouvoir une chanson. | Pluriel de clip. |
Same sound, different letters: clip vs clips
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - clip and clips
This is the hard kind. clip and clips are pronounced identically (\klip\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “clip” sits inside “clips”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14539, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
clip is recorded at frequency rank #4,413, classified as anoun, pronounced \klip\. clips is at rank #10,126, tagged as anoun, pronounced \klip\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 14539, this pair ranks #396,230 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of clip vs clips
Shared letters: cilp. Private to "clip": -. Private to "clips": s.
"clip" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "clips" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "clip" for "clips" ever safe?
Frequency check: "clip" vs "clips" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"clip" and "clips" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "clip" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "clips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #396,230 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "clip" and "clips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CIP vs clips". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #396,230 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.