crevait
\kʁə.vɛ\
The verdict
“crevait” is uncommon French (frequency #71,400 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,400
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de crever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevait · crevait · French
crevait · rank #71,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,400
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH creusez
Nearest frequency peer: creusez (-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 « crevait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- couvrit
couvrit
28,604 corpus weight
- crespo
crespo
28,603 corpus weight
- creusez
creusez
28,602 corpus weight
- crevait
crevait
28,601 corpus weight
- crispée
crispée
28,600 corpus weight
- croisillons
croisillons
28,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crevait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crevait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁə.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crevait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crevait is uncommon French at frequency #71,400 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁə.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de crever.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crevait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crevait, spelled C-R-E-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de crever.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crevait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À 17 heures, désentravé (ce malade déchirait draps et couvertures, crevait les matelas, etc… ^([sic : etc.])), fait quelques mouvements pour se « décourbaturer ».
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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