crétois
\kʁe.twa\
The verdict
“crétois” is uncommon French (frequency #51,995 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,995
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De Crète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cretois · crétois · French
crétois · rank #51,995 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,995
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH créditer
Nearest frequency peer: créditer (-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 « crétois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cristalliser
cristalliser
48,009 corpus weight
- critiquable
critiquable
48,008 corpus weight
- créditer
créditer
48,007 corpus weight
- crétois
crétois
48,006 corpus weight
- crêperie
crêperie
48,005 corpus weight
- cult
cult
48,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crétois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crétois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.twa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crétois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crétois is uncommon French at frequency #51,995 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁe.twa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De Crète.".
crétois has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 crétois, spelled C-R-É-T-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1De Crète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crétois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un palais crétois.
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.
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