cri
[kʁi]
The verdict
“cri” is uncommon German (frequency #75,511 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,511
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein plötzlich ausgestoßener, lauter Ruf; Aufschrei
Corpus desk
Index DE-cri · cri · German
cri · rank #75,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,511
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Coupés
Nearest frequency peer: Coupés (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „cri“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Coupés
Coupés
24,491 corpus weight
- cri
cri
24,490 corpus weight
- crimes
crimes
24,489 corpus weight
- curiosity
curiosity
24,488 corpus weight
- dalassen
dalassen
24,487 corpus weight
- daylight
daylight
24,484 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cri“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cri |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cri“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cri is uncommon German at frequency #75,511 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kʁi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein plötzlich ausgestoßener, lauter Ruf; Aufschrei".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cri, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is cri, spelled C-R-I.
Definition
- 1ein plötzlich ausgestoßener, lauter Ruf; Aufschrei
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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