crèves
\kʁɛv\
The verdict
“crèves” is uncommon French (frequency #50,151 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,151
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crève.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creves · crèves · French
crèves · rank #50,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,151
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croisa
Nearest frequency peer: croisa (-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 « crèves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criquet
criquet
49,853 corpus weight
- croches
croches
49,852 corpus weight
- croisa
croisa
49,851 corpus weight
- crèves
crèves
49,850 corpus weight
- cultivables
cultivables
49,849 corpus weight
- dahan
dahan
49,847 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crèves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crèves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crèves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crèves is uncommon French at frequency #50,151 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de crève.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crèves in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crèves, spelled C-R-È-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crève.
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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