croisillon

\kʁwa.zi.jɔ̃\

/\kʁwa.zi.jɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“croisillon” is uncommon French (frequency #57,195 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,195
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traverse d’une croix.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croisillon · croisillon · French

croisillon · rank #57,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,195
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH crochus

Nearest frequency peer: crochus (-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 « croisillon »

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 « croisillon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for croisillon
PropertyValue
Headwordcroisillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁwa.zi.jɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#57,195
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « croisillon » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.croisillontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « crochus » (#57,194), « crusher » (#57,196), « critiquaient » (#57,193). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croisillon » est au #57,195. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

croisillon is uncommon French at frequency #57,195 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁwa.zi.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for croisillon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists 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 croisillon, spelled C-R-O-I-S-I-L-L-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Traverse d’une croix.
  2. 2
    Bras du transept d’une église.
  3. 3
    Sous-cadre d’une fenêtre à carreaux multiples : pièce longue et mince, rapportée en travers d’une baie, d’un châssis de fenêtre, entrecroisée avec une autre semblable, pour recevoir les vitres ou les vitraux.
  4. 4
    Petite pièce de bois ou de plastique en forme de croix, utilisée pour laisser un interstice entre les dalles lors de la pose d’un carrelage.
  5. 5
    Traverse disposée en croix, qui réunisse les pieds d'un meuble.
  6. 6
    Signe #, symbole numéro, fréquemment dit dièse, caractère informatique de code ASCII 35. On trouve aussi, rarement, signe numéro.
  7. 7
    Croix formée par deux petits segments perpendiculaires se coupant en leur milieu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how croisillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La croix de Lorraine a deux croisillons inégaux.
  2. Cette croisée a deux croisillons, trois croisillons.

Synonyms

hashtagdièse

This word in other languages

muntin(English)Doppelkreuz(Deutsch)

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 "croisillon"?
"croisillon" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.zi.jɔ̃\.
What does "croisillon" mean?
As a noun, "croisillon" means: Traverse d’une croix.
How do you pronounce "croisillon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croisillon" is \kʁwa.zi.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list