crevasser
\kʁə.va.se\
The verdict
“crevasser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fendre, fendiller de manière à produire une crevasse ou des crevasses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevasser · crevasser · French
crevasser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crevasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁə.va.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crevasser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crevasser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁə.va.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fendre, fendiller de manière à produire une crevasse ou des crevasses.".
crevasser doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crevasser, spelled C-R-E-V-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fendre, fendiller de manière à produire une crevasse ou des crevasses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crevasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, le sceau fut rompu des hautes cataractes. Le poids supérieur fendit et crevassa Le couvercle du monde. Un long frisson passa Dans toute chair vivante ; et, par nappes compactes, Et par torrents, la Pluie horrible commença.
Dans les terres noires (tirs), les résultats sont moins aléatoires. […]. En été, elles se dessèchent et se crevassent, et les premières pluies de l'automne font couler dans les fentes les couches superficielles délayées, exposant ainsi des terrains toujours nouveaux à la surface.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.