crâne en peau de fesse
\kʁɑ.n‿ɑ̃ po də fɛs\
The verdict
“crâne en peau de fesse” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Crâne chauve.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crâne en peau de fesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɑ.n‿ɑ̃ po də fɛs\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crâne en peau de fesse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crâne en peau de fesse is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɑ.n‿ɑ̃ po də fɛs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Crâne chauve.".
crâne en peau de fesse has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is crâne en peau de fesse, spelled C-R-Â-N-E- -E-N- -P-E-A-U- -D-E- -F-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Crâne chauve.
This word in other languages
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-Â-N-E- -E-N- -P-E-A-U- -D-E- -F-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.