croissances
\kʁwa.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“croissances” is uncommon French (frequency #58,533 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,533
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de croissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croissances · croissances · French
croissances · rank #58,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,533
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CSE
Nearest frequency peer: CSE (+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 « croissances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coutumières
coutumières
41,472 corpus weight
- coué
coué
41,471 corpus weight
- crackers
crackers
41,470 corpus weight
- croissances
croissances
41,468 corpus weight
- CSE
CSE
41,467 corpus weight
- cèpes
cèpes
41,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croissances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croissances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁwa.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croissances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croissances is uncommon French at frequency #58,533 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁwa.sɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de croissance.".
croissances doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is croissances, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de croissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croissances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on parle d’hypercroissance, on parle de plusieurs années de suite avec des croissances à plus de 100 %.
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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