crésus
\kʁe.zys\
The verdict
“crésus” is uncommon French (frequency #56,528 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,528
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Homme extrêmement riche,
Corpus desk
Index FR-cresus · crésus · French
crésus · rank #56,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,528
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH croupier
Nearest frequency peer: croupier (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “crésus”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- cramoisi
cramoisi
43,476 corpus weight
- critiquez
critiquez
43,475 corpus weight
- croupier
croupier
43,474 corpus weight
- crésus
crésus
43,473 corpus weight
- cytoplasme
cytoplasme
43,472 corpus weight
- câliner
câliner
43,471 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “crésus” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crésus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.zys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crésus” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crésus is uncommon French at frequency #56,528 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.zys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme extrêmement riche,".
No misspelling variants are generated for crésus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crésus, spelled C-R-É-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Homme extrêmement riche,
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crésus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.