crever la dalle
\kʁə.ve la dal\
The verdict
“crever la dalle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être très affamé, mourir de faim.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crever la dalle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁə.ve la dal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crever la dalle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crever la dalle is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁə.ve la dal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Être très affamé, mourir de faim.".
crever la dalle has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crever la dalle, spelled C-R-E-V-E-R- -L-A- -D-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Être très affamé, mourir de faim.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “crever la dalle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-E-V-E-R- -L-A- -D-A-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁə.ve la dal\ (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.