cristi
\kʁi.sti\
The verdict
“cristi” is uncommon French (frequency #95,762 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,762
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Juron familier et abrégé. Les comiques du XIXᵉ siècle en faisaient usage. L'usage est encore présent au Québec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cristi · cristi · French
cristi · rank #95,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,762
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Croisset
Nearest frequency peer: Croisset (+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 « cristi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courlis
courlis
4,246 corpus weight
- craquelures
craquelures
4,241 corpus weight
- cristi
cristi
4,239 corpus weight
- Croisset
Croisset
4,238 corpus weight
- cuisants
cuisants
4,235 corpus weight
- cultissime
cultissime
4,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cristi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cristi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \kʁi.sti\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cristi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cristi is uncommon French at frequency #95,762 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \kʁi.sti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ou Juron familier et abrégé. Les comiques du XIXᵉ siècle en faisaient usage. L'usage est encore présent au Québec.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cristi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cristi, spelled C-R-I-S-T-I.
Definition
- 1ou Juron familier et abrégé. Les comiques du XIXᵉ siècle en faisaient usage. L'usage est encore présent au Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cristi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cristi que j’ai envie de dormir !
— Cristi ! vous avez de l’estomac ! Beaucoup trop ! je m’en suis aperçu souvent ; les jours de jeûne surtout.
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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