crier
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,478
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crier is aFrenchverb. It means: Jeter un ou plusieurs cris. Pronounced \kʁi.je\. It ranks #4,478 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cris and cuir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crier is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,478 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for crier, with forms such as "ccrier", "creir", and "crierr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cris", "cuir", "crue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 crier, spelled C-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeter un ou plusieurs cris.
- 2Élever très haut la voix dans la conversation, dans une discussion, dans un blâme, dans une gronderie, etc.
- 3Forcer trop sa voix en chantant.
- 4Grincer ; produire un bruit aigre, en se frottant rudement contre d’autres ou en se cassant, en parlant des choses.
- 5Proclamer, annoncer une chose au nom de l’autorité.
- 6Avertir souvent quelqu’un d’une chose, la lui conseiller fortement.
- 7Prononcer, à propos d’une personne ou d’une chose, un ou plusieurs mots d’un ton de voix très élevé avec le même effort que si l’on poussait un cri.
- 8Exprimer fortement, même sous forme écrite, un avis, une opinion, souvent sous forme de protestation.
- 9Mettre à l’enchère des biens, inviter à les enchérir.
- 10Attirer le chaland par ses cris ; vendre à la criée.
- 11Dire une chose hautement ou la répéter avec importunité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrier,creir,crierr,crire,crrier,rcier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crier
Misspelling Variants of "crier"
Frequency rank: #4,478 in French
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