croquer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,410
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
croquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Produire sous les dents un bruit sec et craquant, en parlant d’aliments qui se cassent lorsqu’on les broie. Pronounced \kʁɔ.ke\. Often confused with croquis and coque.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for croquer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɔ.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,410 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for croquer, with forms such as "ccroquer", "corquer", and "croqeur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "croquis", "coque", "choque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is croquer, spelled C-R-O-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Produire sous les dents un bruit sec et craquant, en parlant d’aliments qui se cassent lorsqu’on les broie.
- 2Manger avec ce bruit certains aliments.
- 3Manger avidement, dévorer.
- 4Dilapider en peu de temps.
- 5Prendre rapidement, au moyen du crayon, du pinceau, etc., les traits principaux et caractéristiques des objets dont on veut conserver le souvenir, tels qu’une figure, un groupe, etc.
- 6Esquisser par quelques traits la première idée d’un tableau, d’une composition.
- 7Dépeindre en quelques traits caractéristiques dans un écrit.
- 8Toucher une boule avec la sienne, ce qui donne deux coups, et envoyer la boule au loin par un coup qui permet de jouer encore une fois.
- 9Avoir des relations intimes avec quelqu'un, baiser.
- 10Réaliser le croquage d’une tôle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroquer,corquer,croqeur,croqquer,croquerr,croqure,crouqer,crqouer,crroquer,rcoquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for croquer
Misspelling Variants of "croquer"
Frequency rank: #20,410 in French
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