cric
\kʁik\
The verdict
“cric” is uncommon French (frequency #53,236 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,236
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil destiné à soulever du sol, sur une faible hauteur, des charges lourdes comme par exemple le train d'une voiture. Il en existe des modèles à crémaillère, à vis sans fin, pneumatiques ou hyd...
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Index FR-cric · cric · French
cric · rank #53,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,236
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crawl
Nearest frequency peer: crawl (-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 « cric »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coudray
Coudray
46,768 corpus weight
- CPP
CPP
46,767 corpus weight
- crawl
crawl
46,766 corpus weight
- cric
cric
46,765 corpus weight
- criminaliser
criminaliser
46,764 corpus weight
- crins
crins
46,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cric » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cric |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cric » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cric is uncommon French at frequency #53,236 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cric in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cric, spelled C-R-I-C.
Definition
- 1Appareil destiné à soulever du sol, sur une faible hauteur, des charges lourdes comme par exemple le train d'une voiture. Il en existe des modèles à crémaillère, à vis sans fin, pneumatiques ou hydrauliques.
- 2Eau-de-vie ; alcool fort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cric appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malheureusement, mon cric fonctionne mal et je me demande si je vais pouvoir tout seul réussir à le glisser sous l’essieu.
Malgré un pneu crevé en plein Mans que Salomé, très adulte sur le chapitre des coups de main à donner, m'aida à changer, tandis que Madame Mère nous accablait de conseils en regrettant le temps des bons vieux crics englués de graisse noire qui rendaient soudain plébéiennes les belles mains blanches de M. le Juge…
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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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