crèvecœur
\kʁɛv.kœʁ\
The verdict
“crèvecœur” is uncommon French (frequency #98,929 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,929
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race mixte de poules, originaires de France (Normandie), de taille moyenne, à crête et à huppe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevec-ur · crèvecœur · French
crèvecœur · rank #98,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,929
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cryptologie
Nearest frequency peer: cryptologie (-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 « crèvecœur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criticism
criticism
1,076 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crèvecœur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crèvecœur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛv.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crèvecœur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crèvecœur is uncommon French at frequency #98,929 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛv.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race mixte de poules, originaires de France (Normandie), de taille moyenne, à crête et à huppe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crèvecœur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crèvecœur, spelled C-R-È-V-E-C-Œ-U-R.
Definition
- 1Race mixte de poules, originaires de France (Normandie), de taille moyenne, à crête et à huppe.
Synonyms
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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