crooner
\kʁu.nœʁ\
The verdict
“crooner” is uncommon French (frequency #68,954 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,954
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chanteur de variétés des États-Unis ; chanteur de charme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crooner · crooner · French
crooner · rank #68,954 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,954
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH crocheter
Nearest frequency peer: crocheter (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “crooner”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Cosimo
Cosimo
31,052 corpus weight
- couperait
couperait
31,051 corpus weight
- crisser
crisser
31,049 corpus weight
- crocheter
crocheter
31,048 corpus weight
- crooner
crooner
31,047 corpus weight
- créationnis…
créationnisme
31,044 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “crooner” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crooner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁu.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crooner” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crooner is uncommon French at frequency #68,954 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁu.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chanteur de variétés des États-Unis ; chanteur de charme.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for crooner in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crooner, spelled C-R-O-O-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Chanteur de variétés des États-Unis ; chanteur de charme.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.