crocus
\kʁɔ.kys\
The verdict
“crocus” is uncommon French (frequency #65,054 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,054
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plante à bulbe de la famille des Iridaceae qui comprend en particulier l’espèce Crocus sativus dont on extrait le safran. → voir Crocus
Corpus desk
Index FR-crocus · crocus · French
crocus · rank #65,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,054
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crevez
Nearest frequency peer: crevez (-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 « crocus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crain
crain
34,950 corpus weight
- creature
creature
34,949 corpus weight
- crevez
crevez
34,948 corpus weight
- crocus
crocus
34,947 corpus weight
- Crusoé
Crusoé
34,946 corpus weight
- crédite
crédite
34,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crocus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crocus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.kys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crocus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crocus is uncommon French at frequency #65,054 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.kys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crocus in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 crocus, spelled C-R-O-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Genre de plante à bulbe de la famille des Iridaceae qui comprend en particulier l’espèce Crocus sativus dont on extrait le safran. → voir Crocus
- 2Fleur de cette plante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crocus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le crocus fleurit au début du printemps ou à l'automne.
Les fins d’étés surtout étaient délicieuses là-bas, quand les plaines devenaient toutes violettes de crocus, au pied des bois déjà jaunis.
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.
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