crapuleux
\kʁa.py.lø\
The verdict
“crapuleux” is uncommon French (frequency #57,190 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,190
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porté sur la boisson, ivrogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crapuleux · crapuleux · French
crapuleux · rank #57,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,190
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coûtaient
Nearest frequency peer: coûtaient (-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 « crapuleux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couacs
couacs
42,814 corpus weight
- courtise
courtise
42,813 corpus weight
- coûtaient
coûtaient
42,812 corpus weight
- crapuleux
crapuleux
42,811 corpus weight
- crasses
crasses
42,810 corpus weight
- crispe
crispe
42,809 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crapuleux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crapuleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁa.py.lø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crapuleux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crapuleux is uncommon French at frequency #57,190 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁa.py.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
crapuleux has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crapuleux, spelled C-R-A-P-U-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Porté sur la boisson, ivrogne.
- 2Qui se plaît dans la crapule.
- 3Qui a rapport à la crapule.
- 4Qualifie ce qui a trait aux ébats sexuels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crapuleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai jamais été dissolu ni crapuleux, et ne me suis enivré de ma vie.
Individus crapuleux.
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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