crick
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#74,689
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
crick is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced \kʁik\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crick is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #74,689 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for crick 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 crick, spelled C-R-I-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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)).
Frequency rank: #74,689 in French
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