crawler
\kʁo.le\
The verdict
“crawler” is uncommon French (frequency #82,826 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,826
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nager le crawl.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crawler · crawler · French
crawler · rank #82,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,826
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coûteraient
Nearest frequency peer: coûteraient (-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 « crawler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cornus
cornus
17,179 corpus weight
- coruscant
coruscant
17,178 corpus weight
- cotonniers
cotonniers
17,177 corpus weight
- coûteraient
coûteraient
17,176 corpus weight
- crawler
crawler
17,175 corpus weight
- Cressida
Cressida
17,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crawler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crawler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁo.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crawler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crawler is uncommon French at frequency #82,826 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁo.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crawler has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 crawler, spelled C-R-A-W-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nager le crawl.
- 2Indexer, parcourir des sites en vue de répertorier leurs pages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crawler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle paraissait pourtant froide au sortir de la fournaise et la jeune fille crawla au maximum de ses possibilités quatre longueurs de suite, quatre cent quarante mètres d'eau fendue par le fuseau d'un poisson vert et bronze.
Google crawle mes pages sur le nouveau ndd, jusqu'à hier, où il décrawle toutes mes pages sauf 3.
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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