crépusculaire
\kʁe.pys.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“crépusculaire” is uncommon French (frequency #53,243 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,243
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au crépuscule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepusculaire · crépusculaire · French
crépusculaire · rank #53,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,243
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crédités
Nearest frequency peer: crédités (-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 « crépusculaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crisp
crisp
46,761 corpus weight
- crâniens
crâniens
46,760 corpus weight
- crédités
crédités
46,759 corpus weight
- crépusculai…
crépusculaire
46,758 corpus weight
- cubisme
cubisme
46,757 corpus weight
- cueillis
cueillis
46,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crépusculaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crépusculaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.pys.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crépusculaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crépusculaire is uncommon French at frequency #53,243 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁe.pys.ky.lɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for crépusculaire in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is crépusculaire, spelled C-R-É-P-U-S-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au crépuscule.
- 2Actif dans l’aube et dans le crépuscule.
- 3Qui marque la fin de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crépusculaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dernières lueurs crépusculaires commençaient à s’évanouir ; […].
A nos pieds, dans un vaste cirque encadré de crêtes noires et déjà tout envahi par les ombres crépusculaires, apparaît une énorme agglomération de tentes grises, une immense cité de toile, […].
Synonyms
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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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