croître
French, verb
croître is spelled C-R-O-Î-T-R-E (7 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written French, the 12,122nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Croître is a French verb meaning “to grow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, croitre is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of croître”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se développer, en parlant des êtres humains, des animaux, des plantes”.
What does croître mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grow
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of croître
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de croître.
verb: 1. Se développer, en parlant des êtres humains, des animaux, des plantes. 2. Augmenter de quelque façon que ce soit, en parlant des choses. 3. Naître, pousser, en parlant des herbes, des plantes, des fruits, etc.
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.
Forms of croître
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- croissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crû participle past
- croîs first-person indicative present
- croît indicative present singular
- croissons first-person indicative plural
- croissez indicative plural present
- croissent indicative plural present
- croissais first-person imperfect indicative
- croissait imperfect indicative singular
- croissions first-person imperfect indicative
- croissiez imperfect indicative plural
- croissaient imperfect indicative plural
- crûs first-person historic indicative
- crût historic indicative past
- crûmes first-person historic indicative
- crûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to croître
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is croître in French?
croître appears 4.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).