crocodile
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,851
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
crocodile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Reptile de l’ordre des crocodiliens, amphibie, couvert d’écailles et très redoutable par sa force et sa voracité. Pronounced \kʁɔ.kɔ.dil\. Often confused with crocodiles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crocodile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.kɔ.dil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crocodile is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɔ.kɔ.dil\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,851 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for crocodile, with forms such as "ccrocodile", "corcodile", and "crcoodile". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "crocodiles", 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 crocodile, spelled C-R-O-C-O-D-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reptile de l’ordre des crocodiliens, amphibie, couvert d’écailles et très redoutable par sa force et sa voracité.
- 2Peau ou cuir de cet animal.
- 3, souvent Individu dont des aspects sont comparés à ceux des crocodiles, animaux notamment voraces, dangereux, longévif.
- 4Presse à charnière qui sert au cinglage du fer.
- 5Dispositif placé entre les rails et dont le contact, au passage du train, envoie un signal à ce dernier.
- 6Type de locomotive électrique utilisé en Suisse au début du XXᵉ siècle, et par extension les locomotives de type CC 1100, CC 14000 et CC 14100 de la SNCF.
- 7Ôte-agrafes.
- 8Scie utilisée autrefois dans les carrières pour débiter les pierres tendres. Elle est actionnée par une seule personne, sa forme est trapézoïdale avec le plus petit côté près du manche, les dents sont inclinées vers l’utilisateur.
- 9Pince crocodile.
- 10Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté de profil, passant ou arrêté contrairement au lézard qui est vu de dessus les pattes largement écartées du corps.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrocodile,corcodile,crcoodile,croccodile,crocdoile,crocoddile,crocodiel,crocodille,crocodlie,crocoidle,croocdile,crrocodile,rcocodile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crocodile
Misspelling Variants of "crocodile"
Frequency rank: #16,851 in French
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Nearby French words
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