crêper
French, verb/kʁɛ.pe/
crêper is spelled C-R-Ê-P-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 136,634th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crêper is a French verb meaning “to crinkle, to crimp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Friser en manière de crêpe”.
What does crêper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crinkle, to crimp
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Friser en manière de crêpe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crêper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- crêpant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crêpé participle past
- crêpe first-person indicative present
- crêpes indicative present second-person
- crêpons first-person indicative plural
- crêpez indicative plural present
- crêpent indicative plural present
- crêpais first-person imperfect indicative
- crêpait imperfect indicative singular
- crêpions first-person imperfect indicative
- crêpiez imperfect indicative plural
- crêpaient imperfect indicative plural
- crêpai first-person historic indicative
- crêpas historic indicative past
- crêpa historic indicative past
- crêpâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crêper?
- /kʁɛ.pe/
- /kʁe.pe/
- \kʁe.pe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crêper in French?
crêper appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).