crèvecœur

\kʁɛv.kœʁ\

/\kʁɛv.kœʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crèvecœur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crèvecœur
PropertyValue
Headwordcrèvecœur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁɛv.kœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#98,929
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crèvecœur » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.crèvecœurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cryptologie » (#98,928), « crétoise » (#98,930), « criticité » (#98,926). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crèvecœur » est au #98,929. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Race mixte de poules, originaires de France (Normandie), de taille moyenne, à crête et à huppe.

Synonyms

poule de Crèvecœur

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crèvecœur"?
"crèvecœur" is spelled C-R-È-V-E-C-Œ-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁɛv.kœʁ\.
What does "crèvecœur" mean?
As a noun, "crèvecœur" means: Race mixte de poules, originaires de France (Normandie), de taille moyenne, à crête et à huppe.
How do you pronounce "crèvecœur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crèvecœur" is \kʁɛv.kœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crèvecœur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list