crier sur les toits
\kʁi.je syʁ le twa\
The verdict
“crier sur les toits” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Divulguer, répandre une information.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crier sur les toits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.je syʁ le twa\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crier sur les toits” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crier sur les toits is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi.je syʁ le twa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Divulguer, répandre une information.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crier sur les toits in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sur les toits, spelled C-R-I-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -T-O-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Divulguer, répandre une information.
This word in other languages
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Using “crier sur les toits”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -T-O-I-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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