cricri
\kʁi.kʁi\
The verdict
“cricri” is uncommon French (frequency #96,796 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,796
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit du grillon et de la cigale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cricri · cricri · French
cricri · rank #96,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,796
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cristallerie
Nearest frequency peer: cristallerie (+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 « cricri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coédition
coédition
3,208 corpus weight
- craquantes
craquantes
3,207 corpus weight
- cricri
cricri
3,205 corpus weight
- cristallerie
cristallerie
3,204 corpus weight
- Cristóbal
Cristóbal
3,203 corpus weight
- criteria
criteria
3,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cricri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cricri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.kʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cricri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cricri is uncommon French at frequency #96,796 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁi.kʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
cricri has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cricri, spelled C-R-I-C-R-I.
Definition
- 1Bruit du grillon et de la cigale.
- 2Manège tournant de fête foraine avec des sièges suspendus à des chaines.
- 3Grillon ou cigale.
- 4Bruant proyer (passereau).
- 5Jouet particulier qui émet un son semblable au grillon.
- 6Avec le corps maigre du grillon.
- 7Un diminutif.
- 8Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)…
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cricri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De la nuit des charpentes, descendait le cricri mélancolique d’un grillon ; tandis que, le long des murailles, les doigts rapides des femmes, activant les aiguilles de leur tricot, semblaient faire courir des pattes d’araignées géantes, au milieu de tout ce noir.
Manège tournant avec des sièges suspendus à des chaînes, le cricri faisait fureur à l’époque en attendant le grand bal, & les hosties n’étaient plus guère saintes, avec le déchaînement des débuts du rock à la sauce Elvis.
This word in other languages
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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