crevure
\kʁə.vyʁ\
The verdict
“crevure” is uncommon French (frequency #92,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,597
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fissure causée par l’action de crever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crevure · crevure · French
crevure · rank #92,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,597
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Creusois
Nearest frequency peer: Creusois (-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 « crevure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craps
craps
7,407 corpus weight
- cravacher
cravacher
7,406 corpus weight
- Creusois
Creusois
7,405 corpus weight
- crevure
crevure
7,404 corpus weight
- croiserez
croiserez
7,403 corpus weight
- culminants
culminants
7,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crevure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crevure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁə.vyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crevure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crevure is uncommon French at frequency #92,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁə.vyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crevure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 crevure, spelled C-R-E-V-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fissure causée par l’action de crever.
- 2Personne abjecte, individu qui a des sentiments bas et est capable des pires actions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crevure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Colombe est remontée comme une furie à la maison en beuglant que la concierge était un vieille crevure qui se prenait pour qui, non mais des fois ?
Toni ! Sale petite crevure ! On se fait passer pour moi à présent ? Il te faut décidément tous les rôles.
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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