crépin
\kʁe.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“crépin” is uncommon French (frequency #55,867 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,867
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de toutes les marchandises et de tous les outils qui servent à la cordonnerie, à l’exception des cuirs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepin · crépin · French
crépin · rank #55,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,867
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH créeront
Nearest frequency peer: créeront (-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 « crépin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creepy
creepy
44,139 corpus weight
- criais
criais
44,138 corpus weight
- créeront
créeront
44,135 corpus weight
- crépin
crépin
44,134 corpus weight
- Céret
Céret
44,133 corpus weight
- Delahousse
Delahousse
44,132 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crépin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crépin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crépin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crépin is uncommon French at frequency #55,867 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crépin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
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 crépin, spelled C-R-É-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de toutes les marchandises et de tous les outils qui servent à la cordonnerie, à l’exception des cuirs.
- 2Sac dans lequel les cordonniers portent leurs outils et qu’on appelle aussi « saint-crépin ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crépin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Magasin de cuirs et crépins.
Ce mode d’enseignement eut fort peu de succès avec Adrien ; et , lorsque, après huit ans de séjour, il sortit de l’Hospice, riche pour tout bagage d’un crépin et d’une seconde chemise qu’il devait à la générosité de l’administration, son bagage scientifique était tout aussi léger ; il savait à peine lire couramment et dessiner en caractères monstrueux et…
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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