crasher
\kʁa.ʃe\
The verdict
“crasher” is uncommon French (frequency #51,991 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,991
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provoquer un grave accident qui détruit ou rend quelque chose inutilisable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crasher · crasher · French
crasher · rank #51,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,991
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crase
Nearest frequency peer: crase (-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 « crasher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couver
couver
48,013 corpus weight
- craquage
craquage
48,012 corpus weight
- crase
crase
48,011 corpus weight
- crasher
crasher
48,010 corpus weight
- cristalliser
cristalliser
48,009 corpus weight
- critiquable
critiquable
48,008 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crasher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crasher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁa.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crasher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crasher is uncommon French at frequency #51,991 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁa.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crasher, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 crasher, spelled C-R-A-S-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Provoquer un grave accident qui détruit ou rend quelque chose inutilisable.
- 2Terminer anormalement après une opération, se planter.
- 3Se joindre à un évènement sans y être invité
- 4S’écraser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crasher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même si celui de Microsoft a été largement testé (sur plus de 400 000 personnes), la version commerciale que nous avons essayée a «crashé» à maintes reprises.
C’est là qu’on a crashé une soirée électorale de Chirac.
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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