crévindieu
\kʁe.vɛ̃.djø\
The verdict
“crévindieu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de crévindiou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevindieu · crévindieu · French
crévindieu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | crévindieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \kʁe.vɛ̃.djø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crévindieu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crévindieu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \kʁe.vɛ̃.djø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de crévindiou.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crévindieu, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 crévindieu, spelled C-R-É-V-I-N-D-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Variante de crévindiou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crévindieu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah, des noms encore : Gabin, Delon, Dewaere, Adjani, Depardieu, tous les grands, les géants de notre bon vieux cinéma français, notre cinoche à nous, crévindieu, ont franchi ou franchissent encore les portes des studios Éclair.
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.