Cronos
\kʁɔ.nos\
The verdict
“Cronos” is uncommon French (frequency #73,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,870
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et Gaïa (la Terre), roi des Titans et le père de Zeus, Poséidon, Hadès, Héra, Déméter, Hestia et Chiron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cronos · Cronos · French
Cronos · rank #73,870 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,870
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criminellement
Nearest frequency peer: criminellement (-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 « Cronos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criantes
criantes
26,134 corpus weight
- criblés
criblés
26,133 corpus weight
- criminellem…
criminellement
26,132 corpus weight
- Cronos
Cronos
26,131 corpus weight
- crucifiés
crucifiés
26,129 corpus weight
- cryogénique
cryogénique
26,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Cronos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cronos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.nos\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Cronos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Cronos is uncommon French at frequency #73,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁɔ.nos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et Gaïa (la Terre), roi des Titans et le père de Zeus, Poséidon, Hadès, Héra, Déméter, Hestia et Chiron.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cronos in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Cronos, spelled C-R-O-N-O-S.
Definition
- 1Titan, fils d’Ouranos (le Ciel) et Gaïa (la Terre), roi des Titans et le père de Zeus, Poséidon, Hadès, Héra, Déméter, Hestia et Chiron.
This word in other languages
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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