cristal de roche
\kʁis.tal də ʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“cristal de roche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné aux variétés hyalines de quartz qui sont transparentes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cristal de roche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.tal də ʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cristal de roche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cristal de roche is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁis.tal də ʁɔʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom donné aux variétés hyalines de quartz qui sont transparentes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cristal de roche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cristal de roche, spelled C-R-I-S-T-A-L- -D-E- -R-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné aux variétés hyalines de quartz qui sont transparentes.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-S-T-A-L- -D-E- -R-O-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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