crétoise
\kʁe.twaz\
The verdict
“crétoise” is uncommon French (frequency #98,930 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,930
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Crétoise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cretoise · crétoise · French
crétoise · rank #98,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,930
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crèvecœur
Nearest frequency peer: crèvecœur (-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 « crétoise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criticité
criticité
1,075 corpus weight
- cryptologie
cryptologie
1,073 corpus weight
- crèvecœur
crèvecœur
1,072 corpus weight
- crétoise
crétoise
1,071 corpus weight
- cuise
cuise
1,069 corpus weight
- cultivar
cultivar
1,068 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crétoise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crétoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.twaz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crétoise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crétoise is uncommon French at frequency #98,930 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁe.twaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Crétoise.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crétoise in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crétoise, spelled C-R-É-T-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de Crétoise.
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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