crom
The verdict
“crom” is uncommon French (frequency #90,593 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,593
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chrome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crom · crom · French
crom · rank #90,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,593
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crolles
Nearest frequency peer: crolles (-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 « crom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- critiquables
critiquables
9,411 corpus weight
- crochetage
crochetage
9,410 corpus weight
- crolles
crolles
9,409 corpus weight
- crom
crom
9,408 corpus weight
- cryothérapie
cryothérapie
9,406 corpus weight
- crânement
crânement
9,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crom is uncommon French at frequency #90,593 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chrome.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crom in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crom, spelled C-R-O-M.
Definition
- 1Chrome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il Tibet posseda en ses terren stgazis sco crom, arom, magnesit, bor, plum, aur, petroli, fier, lithium, caliumclorid, aluminium, zinc ed auter.
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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