cri

/\kʁi\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,649

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cri is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de crier, son perçant ou puissant émis par la voix d’un être humain ou d’un animal. Pronounced \kʁi\. It ranks #5,649 in French word frequency. Often confused with CV and Ct.

Key facts for cri
PropertyValue
Headwordcri
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁi\
Letters3
Frequency rank#5,649
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cri in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for cri is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,649 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cri in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cri, spelled C-R-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de crier, son perçant ou puissant émis par la voix d’un être humain ou d’un animal.
  2. 2
    Action de crier, son perçant ou puissant émis par la voix d’un être humain ou d’un animal.
  3. 3
    Voix ordinaire des animaux, et particulièrement des quadrupèdes et des oiseaux.
  4. 4
    En parlant des marchands et ouvriers ambulants qui annoncent à haute voix leur genre de commerce ou d’industrie, le prix de ce qu’ils vendent, etc.
  5. 5
    Se dit également de certaines phrases brèves que l’on prononce à très haute voix, pour donner quelque avertissement, pour exprimer quelque émotion vive, etc.
  6. 6
    Les plaintes et les gémissements des personnes qui sont dans l’oppression, dans l’affliction, etc.
  7. 7
    Proclamation.
  8. 8
    Revendication, demande pressante, toute opinion manifestée hautement ; et alors il s’emploie surtout en parlant de plusieurs personnes qui s’accordent à blâmer, à désapprouver quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
  9. 9
    Se dit des mouvements intérieurs qui nous portent à faire une chose ou qui nous en détournent.
  10. 10
    Action de crier permettant au joueur de repousser et de faire tomber les autres.

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Frequency rank: #5,649 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cri"?
"cri" is spelled C-R-I. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi\.
What does "cri" mean?
As a noun, "cri" means: Action de crier, son perçant ou puissant émis par la voix d’un être humain ou d’un animal.
What words are commonly confused with "cri"?
"cri" is commonly confused with "CV", "Ct", "Cs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cri"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cri" is \kʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cri" come from?
"cri" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.