cresson de fontaine
\kʁe.sɔ̃ de fɔ̃.tɛn\
The verdict
“cresson de fontaine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de Nasturtium officinale plante potagère de la famille des Brassicaceae dont les feuilles sont mangées crues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cresson-de-fontaine · cresson de fontaine · French
cresson de fontaine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cresson de fontaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.sɔ̃ de fɔ̃.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cresson de fontaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cresson de fontaine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.sɔ̃ de fɔ̃.tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom usuel de Nasturtium officinale plante potagère de la famille des Brassicaceae dont les feuilles sont mangées crues.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cresson de fontaine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 cresson de fontaine, spelled C-R-E-S-S-O-N- -D-E- -F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Nasturtium officinale plante potagère de la famille des Brassicaceae dont les feuilles sont mangées crues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cresson de fontaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’usage du cresson de fontaine est bien vieux, et de tout temps cette crucifère à goût poivré a passé pour avoir des vertus spéciales, dépuratives et antiscorbutiques, mais il n’y a guère que 120 ans qu’on le cultive en France.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.