crépite
\kʁe.pit\
The verdict
“crépite” is uncommon French (frequency #84,680 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,680
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de crépiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepite · crépite · French
crépite · rank #84,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,680
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cryptique
Nearest frequency peer: cryptique (-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 « crépite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crotale
crotale
15,325 corpus weight
- Crotone
Crotone
15,324 corpus weight
- cruze
cruze
15,323 corpus weight
- cryptique
cryptique
15,322 corpus weight
- crépite
crépite
15,321 corpus weight
- culottée
culottée
15,319 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crépite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crépite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁe.pit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crépite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crépite is uncommon French at frequency #84,680 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁe.pit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crépite, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is crépite, spelled C-R-É-P-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de crépiter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de crépiter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de crépiter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de crépiter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de crépiter.
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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