CRISPR
\kʁis.pœʁ\
The verdict
“CRISPR” is uncommon French (frequency #89,573 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,573
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupement d’éléments palindromiques et d’espaceurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crispr · CRISPR · French
CRISPR · rank #89,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,573
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croupissent
Nearest frequency peer: croupissent (+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 « CRISPR »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courront
courront
10,432 corpus weight
- coverage
coverage
10,431 corpus weight
- coward
coward
10,430 corpus weight
- CRISPR
CRISPR
10,428 corpus weight
- croupissent
croupissent
10,427 corpus weight
- crumb
crumb
10,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « CRISPR » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CRISPR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.pœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « CRISPR » en français
Rare enough to double-check
CRISPR is uncommon French at frequency #89,573 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁis.pœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupement d’éléments palindromiques et d’espaceurs.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CRISPR, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CRISPR, spelled C-R-I-S-P-R.
Definition
- 1Groupement d’éléments palindromiques et d’espaceurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CRISPR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chercheur à l’Australian National University (Canberra), Gaétan Burgio, utilisateur au quotidien de CRISPR, se dit « mal à l’aise » pour commenter cette annonce, faute d’éléments tangibles disponibles. « Mais si c’est vrai, cela fait un peu peur. » Dans l’ensemble, note-t-il, « on va trop vite avec CRISPR, y compris sur les essais cliniques sur les adulte…
« La Chine a la réputation d’aller vite – parfois trop vite – avec CRISPR. » Tetsuya Ishii, spécialiste de la bioéthique à l’université de Hokkaido.
Synonyms
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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