crocus
French, noun/kʁɔ.kys/
crocus is spelled C-R-O-C-U-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crocus is a French masculine noun meaning “crocus (plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plante à bulbe de la famille des Iridaceae qui comprend en particulier l’espèce Crocus sativus dont…”.
What does crocus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrocus (plant)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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 2. Fleur de cette plante.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce crocus?
- /kʁɔ.kys/
- \kʁɔ.kys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crocus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crocus in French?
crocus appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).