crespo
\ˈkɾes.po\
The verdict
“crespo” is uncommon French (frequency #71,398 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,398
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crépu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crespo · crespo · French
crespo · rank #71,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,398
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvrit
Nearest frequency peer: couvrit (-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 « crespo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courser
courser
28,606 corpus weight
- couvait
couvait
28,605 corpus weight
- couvrit
couvrit
28,604 corpus weight
- crespo
crespo
28,603 corpus weight
- creusez
creusez
28,602 corpus weight
- crevait
crevait
28,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crespo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crespo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkɾes.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crespo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crespo is uncommon French at frequency #71,398 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkɾes.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Crépu.".
crespo has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
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 crespo, spelled C-R-E-S-P-O.
Definition
- 1Crépu.
Synonyms
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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