crever la dalle
\kʁə.ve la dal\
The verdict
“crever la dalle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être très affamé, mourir de faim.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crever-la-dalle · crever la dalle · French
crever la dalle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
crever la dalle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁə.ve la dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crever la dalle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a l’habitude de crever la dalle. Sauf que d’ordinaire, il ne court pas le marathon de la capitale !
Un poisson qui crève la dalle.
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.