credible
\ˈkɹɛd.ə.bəl\
The verdict
“credible” is uncommon French (frequency #72,226 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,226
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croyable, crédible, vraisemblable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-credible · credible · French
credible · rank #72,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,226
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crieur
Nearest frequency peer: crieur (+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 « credible »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couffin
couffin
27,779 corpus weight
- coulissantes
coulissantes
27,778 corpus weight
- credible
credible
27,775 corpus weight
- crieur
crieur
27,774 corpus weight
- créatine
créatine
27,772 corpus weight
- crépitement
crépitement
27,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « credible » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | credible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkɹɛd.ə.bəl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « credible » en français
Rare enough to double-check
credible is uncommon French at frequency #72,226 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkɹɛd.ə.bəl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Croyable, crédible, vraisemblable.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for credible, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is credible, spelled C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Croyable, crédible, vraisemblable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how credible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His testimony is not credible.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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