crispée
\kʁis.pe\
The verdict
“crispée” is uncommon French (frequency #71,401 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,401
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de crisper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crispee · crispée · French
crispée · rank #71,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,401
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crevait
Nearest frequency peer: crevait (-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 « crispée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crespo
crespo
28,603 corpus weight
- creusez
creusez
28,602 corpus weight
- crevait
crevait
28,601 corpus weight
- crispée
crispée
28,600 corpus weight
- croisillons
croisillons
28,599 corpus weight
- cuadrado
cuadrado
28,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crispée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crispée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁis.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crispée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crispée is uncommon French at frequency #71,401 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁis.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de crisper.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crispée, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crispée, spelled C-R-I-S-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de crisper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crispée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa main gauche s’était crispée sur sa poitrine, à l’endroit de la blessure, et du sang fluait entre ses doigts.
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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