crus
[kʁy]
The verdict
“crus” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural Maskulinum des Partizips Perfekt des Verbs croire
Corpus desk
Index DE-crus · crus · German
crus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kʁy] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „crus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
crus is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [kʁy]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural Maskulinum des Partizips Perfekt des Verbs croire".
Zero misspellings are on record for crus in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is crus, spelled C-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Plural Maskulinum des Partizips Perfekt des Verbs croire
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.