crick
\kʁik\
The verdict
“crick” is uncommon French (frequency #74,689 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,689
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-crick · crick · French
crick · rank #74,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,689
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crades
Nearest frequency peer: crades (-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 « crick »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cozy
cozy
25,315 corpus weight
- crades
crades
25,313 corpus weight
- crick
crick
25,312 corpus weight
- cristallisée
cristallisée
25,311 corpus weight
- croulant
croulant
25,310 corpus weight
- croyantes
croyantes
25,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crick » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « crick » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crick is uncommon French at frequency #74,689 among 8,609 “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)).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Levaillant a publié la figure de cet oiseau , que Buffon présente comme une variété du Crick à tête bleue.
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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