Crémieux
\kʁe.mjø\
The verdict
“Crémieux” is uncommon French (frequency #53,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,884
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cremieux · Crémieux · French
Crémieux · rank #53,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,884
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croûtons
Nearest frequency peer: croûtons (-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 « Crémieux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- covenant
covenant
46,121 corpus weight
- crispation
crispation
46,120 corpus weight
- croûtons
croûtons
46,118 corpus weight
- Crémieux
Crémieux
46,117 corpus weight
- Cyclades
Cyclades
46,116 corpus weight
- Darby
Darby
46,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Crémieux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crémieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.mjø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Crémieux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Crémieux is uncommon French at frequency #53,884 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁe.mjø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Crémieux has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Crémieux, spelled C-R-É-M-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Crémieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
François Crémieux, le défi du maintien de l’AP.
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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