crispe
\kʁisp\
The verdict
“crispe” is uncommon French (frequency #57,192 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,192
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de crisper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crispe · crispe · French
crispe · rank #57,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,192
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crasses
Nearest frequency peer: crasses (-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 « crispe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coûtaient
coûtaient
42,812 corpus weight
- crapuleux
crapuleux
42,811 corpus weight
- crasses
crasses
42,810 corpus weight
- crispe
crispe
42,809 corpus weight
- critiquaient
critiquaient
42,808 corpus weight
- crochus
crochus
42,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crispe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crispe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁisp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crispe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crispe is uncommon French at frequency #57,192 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁisp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for crispe in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crispe, spelled C-R-I-S-P-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de crisper.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de crisper.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de crisper.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de crisper.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de crisper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crispe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, à la suite de ce vent d’est qui s’élève assez ordinairement vers midi, et quelquefois le soir, l’air se rafraîchit aussitôt, et la peau, qui, un instant auparavant, était épanouie par le calorique, se crispe et se décalorifie.
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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