croisa

\kʁwa.za\

/\kʁwa.za\/ verb

The verdict

“croisa” is uncommon French (frequency #50,150 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,150
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croiser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croisa · croisa · French

croisa · rank #50,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,150
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH croches

Nearest frequency peer: croches (-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 « croisa »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croisa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for croisa
PropertyValue
Headwordcroisa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁwa.za\
Letters6
Frequency rank#50,150
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « croisa » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).croisatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « croches » (#50,149), « crèves » (#50,151), « criquet » (#50,148). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croisa » est au #50,150. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

croisa is uncommon French at frequency #50,150 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁwa.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croiser.".

croisa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croisa, spelled C-R-O-I-S-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croiser.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "croisa"?
"croisa" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.za\.
What does "croisa" mean?
As a verb, "croisa" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croiser.
How do you pronounce "croisa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croisa" is \kʁwa.za\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croisa" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "croisa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list