crid
\kʁid\
The verdict
“crid” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poignard à l'usage des Malais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crid · crid · French
crid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁid\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crid is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poignard à l'usage des Malais.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crid, 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crid, spelled C-R-I-D.
Definition
- 1Poignard à l'usage des Malais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur arme favorite, le crid, est d’un pied et demi de long ; il a la forme d’un poignard dont la lame s’allonge en serpentant.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.