crews
\kɹuːz\
The verdict
“crews” is uncommon French (frequency #62,176 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,176
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crew.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crews · crews · French
crews · rank #62,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,176
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craquez
Nearest frequency peer: craquez (-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 « crews »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courbettes
courbettes
37,828 corpus weight
- craquements
craquements
37,827 corpus weight
- craquez
craquez
37,826 corpus weight
- crews
crews
37,825 corpus weight
- crochu
crochu
37,824 corpus weight
- crottin
crottin
37,822 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crews » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crews |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɹuːz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crews » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crews is uncommon French at frequency #62,176 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɹuːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de crew.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crews, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 crews, spelled C-R-E-W-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crew.
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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