crevant
\kʁə.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“crevant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,386 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,386
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui crève (quelqu’un) de fatigue, épuisant, fatigant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevant · crevant · French
crevant · rank #51,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,386
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvercles
Nearest frequency peer: couvercles (-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 « crevant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cosaque
cosaque
48,618 corpus weight
- cousues
cousues
48,617 corpus weight
- couvercles
couvercles
48,616 corpus weight
- crevant
crevant
48,615 corpus weight
- crowd
crowd
48,613 corpus weight
- crécy
crécy
48,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crevant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crevant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁə.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crevant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crevant is uncommon French at frequency #51,386 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁə.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crevant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crevant, spelled C-R-E-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui crève (quelqu’un) de fatigue, épuisant, fatigant.
- 2Qui fait crever de rire, très drôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crevant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette journée de travail était crevante.
— Mais je suis à la disposition de madame et de mademoiselle, répondit Sainte-Austreberthe, qui partageait complètement l’avis de M. de Mériolle et qui trouvait que c’était là une promenade crevante.
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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