croc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,426
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
croc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument de fer, de bois, etc., à une ou plusieurs pointes recourbées, dont on se sert pour y pendre ou pour y attacher quelque chose. Pronounced \kʁo\. Often confused with cru and CRS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for croc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,426 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for croc, with forms such as "ccroc", "corc", and "crco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "CRS", "cry", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 croc, spelled C-R-O-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument de fer, de bois, etc., à une ou plusieurs pointes recourbées, dont on se sert pour y pendre ou pour y attacher quelque chose.
- 2Instrument de fer dont on se sert pour attraper ou cueillir quelque chose.
- 3Longue perche au bout de laquelle il y a une pointe de fer avec un crochet.
- 4Façon de porter les moustaches recourbées en forme de crochet.
- 5Chacune des quatre grandes canines pointues des animaux carnivores.
- 6Dent humaine.
- 7Personne qui triche aux jeux (de nos jours on utilise plutôt escroc).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroc,corc,crco,crocc,crroc,rcoc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for croc
Misspelling Variants of "croc"
Frequency rank: #31,426 in French
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