crêpe de Chine
\kʁɛp də ʃin\
The verdict
“crêpe de Chine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sorte de tissu de châle d’été en soie, légèrement élastique, ordinairement orné de broderies, ou d'impressions, premièrement créé à Lyon comme imitation de tissu de Chine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crêpe de Chine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛp də ʃin\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crêpe de Chine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crêpe de Chine is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛp də ʃin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sorte de tissu de châle d’été en soie, légèrement élastique, ordinairement orné de broderies, ou d'impressions, premièrement créé à Lyon comme imitation de tissu de Chine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crêpe de Chine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crêpe de Chine, spelled C-R-Ê-P-E- -D-E- -C-H-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de tissu de châle d’été en soie, légèrement élastique, ordinairement orné de broderies, ou d'impressions, premièrement créé à Lyon comme imitation de tissu de Chine.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-Ê-P-E- -D-E- -C-H-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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