creeper
The verdict
“creeper” is uncommon French (frequency #98,923 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,923
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liane, plante grimpante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creeper · creeper · French
creeper · rank #98,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,923
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criticism
Nearest frequency peer: criticism (+2 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 « creeper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosmétologie
cosmétologie
1,083 corpus weight
- courrières
courrières
1,082 corpus weight
- creeper
creeper
1,078 corpus weight
- criticism
criticism
1,076 corpus weight
- criticité
criticité
1,075 corpus weight
- cryptologie
cryptologie
1,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « creeper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creeper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « creeper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
creeper is uncommon French at frequency #98,923 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for creeper, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 creeper, spelled C-R-E-E-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Liane, plante grimpante.
- 2Grimpereau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how creeper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ivy is a creeper.
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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