craps
\kʁaps\
The verdict
“craps” is uncommon French (frequency #92,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,594
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu d'argent qui se joue avec deux dés, généralement dans les casinos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craps · craps · French
craps · rank #92,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,594
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coutelier
Nearest frequency peer: coutelier (-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 « craps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couplages
couplages
7,410 corpus weight
- coutelier
coutelier
7,408 corpus weight
- craps
craps
7,407 corpus weight
- cravacher
cravacher
7,406 corpus weight
- Creusois
Creusois
7,405 corpus weight
- crevure
crevure
7,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁaps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craps is uncommon French at frequency #92,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁaps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeu d'argent qui se joue avec deux dés, généralement dans les casinos.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for craps, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is craps, spelled C-R-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1Jeu d'argent qui se joue avec deux dés, généralement dans les casinos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le craps, comme le black-jack, est un jeu « boomerang » puisqu’il s’agit de la passe anglaise, née en France, et qui nous est revenue via les États-Unis.
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); 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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