creature
\ˈkɹi.tʃɚ\
The verdict
“creature” is uncommon French (frequency #65,052 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,052
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature. Résultat de la création.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creature · creature · French
creature · rank #65,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,052
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crain
Nearest frequency peer: crain (-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 « creature »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coud
coud
34,952 corpus weight
- crain
crain
34,950 corpus weight
- creature
creature
34,949 corpus weight
- crevez
crevez
34,948 corpus weight
- crocus
crocus
34,947 corpus weight
- Crusoé
Crusoé
34,946 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « creature » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɹi.tʃɚ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « creature » en français
Rare enough to double-check
creature is uncommon French at frequency #65,052 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkɹi.tʃɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for creature in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is creature, spelled C-R-E-A-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Créature. Résultat de la création.
- 2Animal, bête.
- 3Monstre, être vivant imaginaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how creature appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.
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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