Crevel
\kʁə.vɛl\
The verdict
“Crevel” is uncommon French (frequency #69,732 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,732
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevel · Crevel · French
Crevel · rank #69,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,732
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crevard
Nearest frequency peer: crevard (-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 « Crevel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Couvin
Couvin
30,272 corpus weight
- crasseuse
crasseuse
30,271 corpus weight
- crevard
crevard
30,270 corpus weight
- Crevel
Crevel
30,269 corpus weight
- CRP
CRP
30,268 corpus weight
- cuisent
cuisent
30,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Crevel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crevel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁə.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Crevel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Crevel is uncommon French at frequency #69,732 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁə.vɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Crevel in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Crevel, spelled C-R-E-V-E-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Crevel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les portraits de feu Mme Crevel, de Crevel, de sa fille et de son gendre, dus au pinceau de Pierre Grassou, le peintre en renom dans la bourgeoisie, à qui Crevel devait le ridicule de son attitude byronienne, garnissaient les parois, mis tous les quatre en pendants.
Crevel, lui aussi pris au piège de la neurasthénie et des crises de nerfs, voudrait lui faire tout oublier dans la nuit parisienne.
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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