crochus
\kʁɔ.ʃy\
The verdict
“crochus” is uncommon French (frequency #57,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,194
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de crochu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crochus · crochus · French
crochus · rank #57,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,194
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH critiquaient
Nearest frequency peer: critiquaient (-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 « crochus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crasses
crasses
42,810 corpus weight
- crispe
crispe
42,809 corpus weight
- critiquaient
critiquaient
42,808 corpus weight
- crochus
crochus
42,807 corpus weight
- croisillon
croisillon
42,806 corpus weight
- crusher
crusher
42,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crochus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crochus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.ʃy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crochus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crochus is uncommon French at frequency #57,194 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁɔ.ʃy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de crochu.".
crochus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crochus, spelled C-R-O-C-H-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de crochu.
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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