crisper
\kʁis.pe\
The verdict
“crisper” is uncommon French (frequency #87,502 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,502
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracter par une crispation, des crispations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crisper · crisper · French
crisper · rank #87,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,502
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crook
Nearest frequency peer: crook (+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 « crisper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cotisant
cotisant
12,503 corpus weight
- cotonneux
cotonneux
12,502 corpus weight
- crisper
crisper
12,499 corpus weight
- crook
crook
12,498 corpus weight
- créditeur
créditeur
12,496 corpus weight
- cuando
cuando
12,495 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crisper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crisper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁis.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crisper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crisper is uncommon French at frequency #87,502 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁis.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
crisper doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crisper, spelled C-R-I-S-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Contracter par une crispation, des crispations.
- 2Resserrer, racornir.
- 3Impatienter, agacer fortement.
- 4Se resserrer, se replier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crisper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des engueulades qui rougissent les yeux, bleuissent les joues, crispent les poings, arrachent les cheveux, cassent les œufs, renversent les éventaires, dépoitraillent les matrones, et me remplissent d'une joie pure.
Une expression d'étonnement, d'ennui en même temps que de rancune lui crispait le visage.
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); 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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