crocos
\kʁɔ.kos\
The verdict
“crocos” is uncommon French (frequency #77,392 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,392
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le safran.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crocos · crocos · French
crocos · rank #77,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,392
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH critiquais
Nearest frequency peer: critiquais (-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 « crocos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criants
criants
22,612 corpus weight
- crispations
crispations
22,611 corpus weight
- critiquais
critiquais
22,610 corpus weight
- crocos
crocos
22,609 corpus weight
- croulent
croulent
22,608 corpus weight
- crématoire
crématoire
22,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crocos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crocos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.kos\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crocos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crocos is uncommon French at frequency #77,392 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.kos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Le safran.".
crocos has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crocos, spelled C-R-O-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Le safran.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crocos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…un autel d'or suivi de cent vingt enfants qui tenaient des plats d'or chargés de myrrhe, de crocos et d'encens en fumées.
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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