cram
\ˈkɹæm\
The verdict
“cram” is uncommon French (frequency #90,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,587
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourrage, remplissage en force.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cram · cram · French
cram · rank #90,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,587
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Craponne
Nearest frequency peer: Craponne (+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 « cram »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coupantes
coupantes
9,417 corpus weight
- courbures
courbures
9,416 corpus weight
- cram
cram
9,414 corpus weight
- Craponne
Craponne
9,413 corpus weight
- crissent
crissent
9,412 corpus weight
- critiquables
critiquables
9,411 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cram » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cram |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɹæm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cram » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cram is uncommon French at frequency #90,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɹæm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cram in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cram, spelled C-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1Bourrage, remplissage en force.
- 2Cours bachoté, leçon apprise à la hâte à la veille d’un contrôle. Bachotage.
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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