crénelé
\kʁe.nə.le\
The verdict
“crénelé” is uncommon French (frequency #93,650 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,650
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est doté de créneaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crenele · crénelé · French
crénelé · rank #93,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,650
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH créerai
Nearest frequency peer: créerai (-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 « crénelé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crater
crater
6,357 corpus weight
- crux
crux
6,353 corpus weight
- créerai
créerai
6,352 corpus weight
- crénelé
crénelé
6,351 corpus weight
- Curtin
Curtin
6,348 corpus weight
- CVT
CVT
6,347 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crénelé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crénelé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.nə.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crénelé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crénelé is uncommon French at frequency #93,650 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁe.nə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for crénelé in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crénelé, spelled C-R-É-N-E-L-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est doté de créneaux.
- 2Décoré de créneaux.
- 3Dont le bord est découpé en dents arrondies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crénelé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soudain, une molle secousse nous avertit que notre barque a touché terre ; deux marches glissantes qui nous conduisent à une espèce de plate-forme crénelée : nous sommes dans la cour extérieure d’un château fort qui épouse étroitement la forme irrégulière de l’îlot sur lequel il est construit, et dont la masse isolée baigne de toutes parts dans l’océan.
Pal crénelé. — Croix crénelée.
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.
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