crab
\kɹæb\
The verdict
“crab” is uncommon French (frequency #66,627 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,627
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crab · crab · French
crab · rank #66,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,627
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CQ
Nearest frequency peer: CQ (-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 « crab »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- costumier
costumier
33,378 corpus weight
- coucherai
coucherai
33,377 corpus weight
- couronnant
couronnant
33,376 corpus weight
- CQ
CQ
33,375 corpus weight
- crab
crab
33,374 corpus weight
- crachez
crachez
33,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɹæb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crab » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crab is uncommon French at frequency #66,627 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɹæb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crab, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crab, spelled C-R-A-B.
Definition
- 1Crabe.
- 2Morpion.
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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