crook
[kɹʊk]
The verdict
“crook” is uncommon French (frequency #87,503 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,503
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , Malade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crook · crook · French
crook · rank #87,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,503
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crisper
Nearest frequency peer: crisper (-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 « crook »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cotonneux
cotonneux
12,502 corpus weight
- crisper
crisper
12,499 corpus weight
- crook
crook
12,498 corpus weight
- créditeur
créditeur
12,496 corpus weight
- cuando
cuando
12,495 corpus weight
- cule
cule
12,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crook » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɹʊk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crook » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crook is uncommon French at frequency #87,503 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kɹʊk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for crook in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crook, spelled C-R-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1, Malade.
- 2, Non droit, non standard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I′m feeling a bit crook.
That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
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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