crier sur les toits

\kʁi.je syʁ le twa\

/\kʁi.je syʁ le twa\/ verb

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.

Key facts for crier sur les toits
PropertyValue
Headwordcrier sur les toits
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁi.je syʁ le twa\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “crier sur les toits” sits in French frequency

crier sur les toits falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Divulguer, répandre une information.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crier sur les toits"?
"crier sur les toits" is spelled C-R-I-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -T-O-I-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.je syʁ le twa\.
What does "crier sur les toits" mean?
As a verb, "crier sur les toits" means: Divulguer, répandre une information.
How do you pronounce "crier sur les toits"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crier sur les toits" is \kʁi.je syʁ le twa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “crier sur les toits”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \kʁi.je syʁ le twa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

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