crisp
\krɪsp\
The verdict
“crisp” is uncommon French (frequency #53,240 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,240
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croquant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crisp · crisp · French
crisp · rank #53,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,240
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criques
Nearest frequency peer: criques (-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 « crisp »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criminaliser
criminaliser
46,764 corpus weight
- crins
crins
46,763 corpus weight
- criques
criques
46,762 corpus weight
- crisp
crisp
46,761 corpus weight
- crâniens
crâniens
46,760 corpus weight
- crédités
crédités
46,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crisp » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crisp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \krɪsp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crisp » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crisp is uncommon French at frequency #53,240 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \krɪsp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Croquant.".
crisp has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crisp, spelled C-R-I-S-P.
Definition
- 1Croquant.
Synonyms
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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