criard
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,631
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
criard is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui crie souvent. Pronounced \kʁi.jaʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kʁi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for criard is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi.jaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,631 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for criard in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 criard, spelled C-R-I-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui crie souvent.
- 2Qualifie des oiseaux qui crient souvent et d’une manière désagréable.
- 3Qui se plaint, qui crie souvent pour des sujets de peu d’importance, ou même sans sujet.
- 4Qualifie une voix aigre, dont le son blesse l’oreille, un instrument de musique qui rend un son désagréable.
- 5Qualifie des dettes auprès de créanciers qui en sollicitent le paiement avec importunité.
- 6Qualifie des couleurs qui tranchent trop fortement, qui blessent le regard.
- 7Voyant et de mauvais goût.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #66,631 in French
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