Crespin
\kʁɛ.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“Crespin” is uncommon French (frequency #59,919 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,919
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aveyron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crespin · Crespin · French
Crespin · rank #59,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,919
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH create
Nearest frequency peer: create (-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 « Crespin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crampon
crampon
40,085 corpus weight
- Craon
Craon
40,084 corpus weight
- create
create
40,083 corpus weight
- Crespin
Crespin
40,082 corpus weight
- cubiques
cubiques
40,079 corpus weight
- Cuers
Cuers
40,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Crespin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crespin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Crespin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Crespin is uncommon French at frequency #59,919 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁɛ.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Crespin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Crespin, spelled C-R-E-S-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aveyron.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Tarn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Crespin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur les sites d’Alstom à Crespin et Petite-Forêt, dans le Nord, les chaînes de montage sont occupées à 80 % par des commandes de la région Île-de-France.
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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