crépus
\kʁe.py\
The verdict
“crépus” is uncommon French (frequency #51,390 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,390
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de crépu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepus · crépus · French
crépus · rank #51,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,390
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crécy
Nearest frequency peer: crécy (-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 « crépus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crevant
crevant
48,615 corpus weight
- crowd
crowd
48,613 corpus weight
- crécy
crécy
48,612 corpus weight
- crépus
crépus
48,611 corpus weight
- cyberattaqu…
cyberattaques
48,609 corpus weight
- cyberpunk
cyberpunk
48,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crépus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crépus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.py\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crépus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crépus is uncommon French at frequency #51,390 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁe.py\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de crépu.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crépus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crépus, spelled C-R-É-P-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de crépu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crépus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous son chapeau, à bords retroussés, apparaissaient, riches et crépus, des cheveux plutôt roux que blonds.
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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