crèvecœur
\kʁɛv.kœʁ\
The verdict
“crèvecœur” is uncommon French (frequency #98,929 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,929
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Race mixte de poules, originaires de France (Normandie), de taille moyenne, à crête et à huppe.
| 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) |
Where “crèvecœur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crèvecœur is uncommon French at frequency #98,929 among 257,141 “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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Using “crèvecœur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-È-V-E-C-Œ-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁɛv.kœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.