crémone

\kʁe.mɔn\

/\kʁe.mɔn\/ noun

The verdict

“crémone” is uncommon French (frequency #50,753 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,753
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ferrure qui va du haut en bas du châssis d’une fenêtre et sert à la fermer et à l’ouvrir au moyen d’une poignée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cremone · crémone · French

crémone · rank #50,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,753
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH critical

Nearest frequency peer: critical (-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 « crémone »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crémone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crémone
PropertyValue
Headwordcrémone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁe.mɔn\
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,753
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crémone » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).crémonetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « critical » (#50,752), « curatelle » (#50,754), « courtisanes » (#50,749). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crémone » est au #50,753. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crémone is uncommon French at frequency #50,753 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.mɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ferrure qui va du haut en bas du châssis d’une fenêtre et sert à la fermer et à l’ouvrir au moyen d’une poignée.".

Zero misspellings are on record for crémone in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 crémone, spelled C-R-É-M-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ferrure qui va du haut en bas du châssis d’une fenêtre et sert à la fermer et à l’ouvrir au moyen d’une poignée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how crémone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle va doucement tourner la crémone de la porte du fond, puis tirer le verrou de la porte de gauche.
  2. Des mouches mortes semaient le parquet, et le garçon, pour ouvrir les persiennes, dut se battre avec la crémone.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crémone"?
"crémone" is spelled C-R-É-M-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁe.mɔn\.
What does "crémone" mean?
As a noun, "crémone" means: Ferrure qui va du haut en bas du châssis d’une fenêtre et sert à la fermer et à l’ouvrir au moyen d’une poignée.
How do you pronounce "crémone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crémone" is \kʁe.mɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crémone" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crémone", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list