crins
\kʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“crins” is uncommon French (frequency #53,238 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,238
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crins · crins · French
crins · rank #53,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,238
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criminaliser
Nearest frequency peer: criminaliser (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « crins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crawl
crawl
46,766 corpus weight
- cric
cric
46,765 corpus weight
- criminaliser
criminaliser
46,764 corpus weight
- crins
crins
46,763 corpus weight
- criques
criques
46,762 corpus weight
- crisp
crisp
46,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crins is uncommon French at frequency #53,238 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de crin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for crins in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crins, spelled C-R-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un rusquier est un flotteur de liège ayant deux doigts d’épaisseur et la grandeur d’une assiette, sous lequel on fixe trois ou quatre crins de vingt centimètres pourvus d’hameçons.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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