crochu
\kʁɔ.ʃy\
The verdict
“crochu” is uncommon French (frequency #62,177 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,177
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est courbé en crochet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crochu · crochu · French
crochu · rank #62,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crews
Nearest frequency peer: crews (-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 « crochu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craquements
craquements
37,827 corpus weight
- craquez
craquez
37,826 corpus weight
- crews
crews
37,825 corpus weight
- crochu
crochu
37,824 corpus weight
- crottin
crottin
37,822 corpus weight
- cruciforme
cruciforme
37,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crochu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crochu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.ʃy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crochu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crochu is uncommon French at frequency #62,177 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁɔ.ʃy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est courbé en crochet.".
crochu has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is crochu, spelled C-R-O-C-H-U.
Definition
- 1Qui est courbé en crochet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crochu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un morceau de fer crochu, doigts crochus.
Mains crochues.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "crochu"?
What does "crochu" mean?
How do you pronounce "crochu"?
What language does "crochu" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crochu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).