crécerelle
The verdict
“crécerelle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom vernaculaire spécifique d'une espèce de petit faucon de la famille des falconidés, Falco tinnunculus, l’un des rapaces les plus communs en France (cf. faucon crécerelle).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crécerelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛs.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crécerelle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crécerelle is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛs.ʁɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for crécerelle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crécerelle, spelled C-R-É-C-E-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire spécifique d'une espèce de petit faucon de la famille des falconidés, Falco tinnunculus, l’un des rapaces les plus communs en France (cf. faucon crécerelle).
- 2Quand employé seul, synonyme de faucon crécerelle.
- 3Nom générique normalisé donné à un sous-ensemble de dix petites espèces à l'intérieur du genre Falco (dont l'une est éteinte: la crécerelle de la Réunion (Falco duboisi)), telles la crécerelle d'Amérique (Falco sparverius), la crécerelle de Maurice (Falco punctatus) menacée d'extinction, etc., caractérisées par leur petite taille, le dimorphisme sexuel (inhabituel chez leur famille), mais surtout par leur méthode de chasse, consistant à planer à une quinzaine de mètres au-dessus de leur proie et à piquer vers elle avec grande célérité, chose qu'ils peuvent même accomplir à l'intérieur de bâtiments (e.g. granges).
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Using “crécerelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-É-C-E-R-E-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁɛs.ʁɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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