creps
\kʁɛps\
The verdict
“creps” is uncommon French (frequency #70,509 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,509
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de dés qui vient d’Angleterre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creps · creps · French
creps · rank #70,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,509
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvriront
Nearest frequency peer: couvriront (-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 « creps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corneau
corneau
29,496 corpus weight
- corrigera
corrigera
29,495 corpus weight
- couvriront
couvriront
29,493 corpus weight
- creps
creps
29,492 corpus weight
- crozier
crozier
29,491 corpus weight
- cuevas
cuevas
29,489 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « creps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛps\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « creps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
creps is uncommon French at frequency #70,509 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeu de dés qui vient d’Angleterre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for creps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 creps, spelled C-R-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1Jeu de dés qui vient d’Angleterre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how creps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le creps se joue avec des dés et un cornet, qui produisent trente-cinq variations. Le joueur qui a le dé annonce le point sur lequel il veut que roule tout le jeu.
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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