croches
\kʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“croches” is uncommon French (frequency #50,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,149
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tenailles recourbées avec lesquelles on tient le fer rouge sur l’enclume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croches · croches · French
croches · rank #50,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criquet
Nearest frequency peer: criquet (-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 « croches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crachat
crachat
49,855 corpus weight
- craques
craques
49,854 corpus weight
- criquet
criquet
49,853 corpus weight
- croches
croches
49,852 corpus weight
- croisa
croisa
49,851 corpus weight
- crèves
crèves
49,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croches is uncommon French at frequency #50,149 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tenailles recourbées avec lesquelles on tient le fer rouge sur l’enclume.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for croches in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croches, spelled C-R-O-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Tenailles recourbées avec lesquelles on tient le fer rouge sur l’enclume.
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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