cron
\kʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“cron” is uncommon French (frequency #83,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,745
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre sablonneuse où l’on voit beaucoup de débris de coquillages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cron · cron · French
cron · rank #83,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,745
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crist
Nearest frequency peer: crist (-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 « cron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crachaient
crachaient
16,260 corpus weight
- cramée
cramée
16,259 corpus weight
- crashe
crashe
16,258 corpus weight
- crist
crist
16,257 corpus weight
- cron
cron
16,256 corpus weight
- cuisinée
cuisinée
16,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cron is uncommon French at frequency #83,745 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cron in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cron, spelled C-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Terre sablonneuse où l’on voit beaucoup de débris de coquillages.
- 2Son de blé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paysans , dont les terres sont en ce pays naturellement stériles , exploitent en Octobre les falunières, enlèvent le cron , et le répandent desséché et d'une manière uniforme sur leurs champs pour les fertiliser.
[…] mais il reste 31 kilos de déchets, son, cron, grenailles, valant, en toute saison, au minimum 12 francs les 100 kilos, soit 3 fr. 70.
Synonyms
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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