crémant
\kʁe.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“crémant” is uncommon French (frequency #61,434 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,434
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin mousseux obtenu par méthode traditionnelle (méthode champenoise) dans une aire d’appellation autre que la Champagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cremant · crémant · French
crémant · rank #61,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,434
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruches
Nearest frequency peer: cruches (-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 « crémant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creusait
creusait
38,570 corpus weight
- croiraient
croiraient
38,569 corpus weight
- cruches
cruches
38,568 corpus weight
- crémant
crémant
38,567 corpus weight
- Créon
Créon
38,566 corpus weight
- cucul
cucul
38,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crémant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crémant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crémant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crémant is uncommon French at frequency #61,434 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin mousseux obtenu par méthode traditionnelle (méthode champenoise) dans une aire d’appellation autre que la Champagne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crémant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crémant, spelled C-R-É-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Vin mousseux obtenu par méthode traditionnelle (méthode champenoise) dans une aire d’appellation autre que la Champagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crémant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soit un champagne ou un crémant haut de gamme.
D’où l’idée des viticulteurs du Beaujolais de reconvertir leur cépage phare, le gamay, pour faire du crémant de Bourgogne, de changer le beaujolais blanc en bourgogne blanc, tous deux étant produits avec du chardonnay, et de replanter leurs vignes avec du pinot noir pour récolter des bourgognes rouges.
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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