crick
\kʁik\
The verdict
“crick” is uncommon French (frequency #74,689 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,689
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire générique ambigu que l'on a donné au XIXe siècle à divers psittacidés (e.g. perroquets "vrais"), incluant des espèces d'amazones, le papegeai maillé, le perroquet robuste, etc., do...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crick” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crick is uncommon French at frequency #74,689 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for crick in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crick, spelled C-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire générique ambigu que l'on a donné au XIXe siècle à divers psittacidés (e.g. perroquets "vrais"), incluant des espèces d'amazones, le papegeai maillé, le perroquet robuste, etc., dont le seul vestige aujourd'hui est le nom des psittacidés du genre Triclaria.
- 2Genre monospécifique de psittacidés d'un beau vert, similaire aux amazones, démontrant un dichromatisme sexuel, natif des forêts humides de la côte atlantique dans le sud-est du Brésil (espèce unique: le crick à ventre bleu (Triclaria malachitacea)).
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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Using “crick”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.