Créon
\kʁe.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“Créon” is uncommon French (frequency #61,435 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,435
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creon · Créon · French
Créon · rank #61,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,435
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crémant
Nearest frequency peer: crémant (-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 « Créon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- curaçao
curaçao
38,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Créon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Créon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Créon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Créon is uncommon French at frequency #61,435 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁe.ɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Créon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Créon, spelled C-R-É-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Gironde.
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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