criants
\kʁi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“criants” is uncommon French (frequency #77,389 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,389
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de criant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criants · criants · French
criants · rank #77,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,389
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crispations
Nearest frequency peer: crispations (+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 « criants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coudé
coudé
22,616 corpus weight
- coursive
coursive
22,614 corpus weight
- criants
criants
22,612 corpus weight
- crispations
crispations
22,611 corpus weight
- critiquais
critiquais
22,610 corpus weight
- crocos
crocos
22,609 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criants is uncommon French at frequency #77,389 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁi.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de criant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for criants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is criants, spelled C-R-I-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de criant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how criants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les abbayes et les monastères, étaient à cette époque, « cavernes de voleurs, lieux de dissolution » ; les abus devenaient tellement criants, les désordres prenaient des proportions si inquiétantes, qu’à tout prix il fallait y mettre un terme.
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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