crétinerie
French, noun/kʁe.tin.ʁi/
crétinerie is spelled C-R-É-T-I-N-E-R-I-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crétinerie is a French feminine noun meaning “idiocy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait d’être crétin”.
What does crétinerie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineidiocy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait d’être crétin. 2. Acte ou paroles du crétin.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crétinerie
- crétineries plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crétinerie?
- /kʁe.tin.ʁi/
- \kʁe.tin.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crétinerie in French?
crétinerie appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).