crissent

\kʁis\

/\kʁis\/ verb

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The verdict

“crissent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,589 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,589
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de crisser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crissent · crissent · French

crissent · rank #90,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,589
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Craponne

Nearest frequency peer: Craponne (-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 « crissent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crissent
PropertyValue
Headwordcrissent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁis\
Letters8
Frequency rank#90,589
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crissent » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).crissenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Craponne » (#90,588), « critiquables » (#90,590), « cram » (#90,587). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crissent » est au #90,589. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crissent is uncommon French at frequency #90,589 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

crissent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is crissent, spelled C-R-I-S-S-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de crisser.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de crisser.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crissent"?
"crissent" is spelled C-R-I-S-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁis\.
What does "crissent" mean?
As a verb, "crissent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de crisser.
How do you pronounce "crissent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crissent" is \kʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crissent" come from?
"crissent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crissent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Craponne#90,588cotillon#90,583cédèrent#90,601colchide#90,560

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list