crépu
\kʁe.py\
The verdict
“crépu” is uncommon French (frequency #82,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,834
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très frisé ; crêpé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepu · crépu · French
crépu · rank #82,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,834
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crépeau
Nearest frequency peer: Crépeau (-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 « crépu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crèvera
crèvera
17,169 corpus weight
- Crépeau
Crépeau
17,168 corpus weight
- crépu
crépu
17,167 corpus weight
- cunéiformes
cunéiformes
17,166 corpus weight
- célébrissime
célébrissime
17,164 corpus weight
- cétones
cétones
17,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crépu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crépu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.py\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crépu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crépu is uncommon French at frequency #82,834 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁe.py\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
crépu has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crépu, spelled C-R-É-P-U.
Definition
- 1Très frisé ; crêpé.
- 2Qualifie les feuilles dont le bord est ondulé et chargé de petites rides très rapprochées.
- 3Qui est découpée régulièrement et quelquefois transversalement par des sillons onduleux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crépu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur cette côte qui s’étend depuis le détroit de Gibraltar jusqu’au cap de Bonne-Espérance, les habitants ont tous, après le Niger, la tête oblongue, le nez large, écrasé, épaté, de grosses lèvres, une chevelure crépue comme la laine de nos moutons.
Sous son chapeau, à bords retroussés, apparaissaient, riches et crépus, des cheveux plutôt roux que blonds ; […].
This word in other languages
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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