cricri
\kʁi.kʁi\
The verdict
“cricri” is an uncommon French word, ranked #96,796 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #96,796
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bruit du grillon et de la cigale.
| 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) |
Where “cricri” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cricri is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi.kʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #96,796 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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)…
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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Using “cricri”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-C-R-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.