croquenot
\kʁɔk.no\
The verdict
“croquenot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soulier, grolle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croquenot · croquenot · French
croquenot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croquenot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔk.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
croquenot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔk.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soulier, grolle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for croquenot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 croquenot, spelled C-R-O-Q-U-E-N-O-T.
Definition
- 1Soulier, grolle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croquenot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O croquenots boueux, ô mes vieilles godasses, Héroïques sorlots, ô mes chers compagnons, Je vous aime, et pourtant, à travers vos crevasses, Le gel, cette nuit même, a mordu mes arpions !
Il avait le cou noir, un liséré noir, laissé par son chapeau, sur le front, les doigts gris et les ongles noirs, une paire de gants de fil ternes à la main, des croquenots d’asile de nuit. L’entrée de cet olibrius provoquait un certain émoi.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.