crier merveille
\kʁi.je mɛʁ.vɛj\
The verdict
“crier merveille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manifester une vive admiration mêlée d’étonnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crier-merveille · crier merveille · French
crier merveille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- 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 | crier merveille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.je mɛʁ.vɛj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
crier merveille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁi.je mɛʁ.vɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manifester une vive admiration mêlée d’étonnement.".
crier merveille has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crier merveille, spelled C-R-I-E-R- -M-E-R-V-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Manifester une vive admiration mêlée d’étonnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crier merveille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le tronc est gros comme une cuisse d’homme, on crie merveille et on le coupe.
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.