crisser
\kʁi.se\
The verdict
“crisser” is uncommon French (frequency #68,952 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,952
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produire, en se contractant, une sorte de grincement, surtout en parlant de dents ou de pneus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crisser · crisser · French
crisser · rank #68,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,952
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crocheter
Nearest frequency peer: crocheter (+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 « crisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cortina
cortina
31,053 corpus weight
- Cosimo
Cosimo
31,052 corpus weight
- couperait
couperait
31,051 corpus weight
- crisser
crisser
31,049 corpus weight
- crocheter
crocheter
31,048 corpus weight
- crooner
crooner
31,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crisser is uncommon French at frequency #68,952 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁi.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crisser, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crisser, spelled C-R-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Produire, en se contractant, une sorte de grincement, surtout en parlant de dents ou de pneus.
- 2Produire un cricri, en parlant du grillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un piétinement de souliers, puis des chaises dérangées qui crissèrent sur les dalles l’interrompirent.
La main droite était ramassée comme un petit chariot de chair, et elle avançait, laissant derrière elle un sillon ourlé ; et crissant, crissant, l’aiguille dardait sa langue d’acier, plongeait et émergeait, tirant le long fil par son œil d’or.
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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