croqueuse
\kʁɔ.køz\
The verdict
“croqueuse” is uncommon French (frequency #97,825 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,825
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui croque, qui mange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croqueuse · croqueuse · French
croqueuse · rank #97,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,825
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cronstadt
Nearest frequency peer: Cronstadt (-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 « croqueuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coutras
Coutras
2,179 corpus weight
- couvées
couvées
2,178 corpus weight
- Cronstadt
Cronstadt
2,177 corpus weight
- croqueuse
croqueuse
2,176 corpus weight
- crosne
crosne
2,175 corpus weight
- Cruas
Cruas
2,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croqueuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croqueuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.køz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croqueuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croqueuse is uncommon French at frequency #97,825 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.køz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
croqueuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is croqueuse, spelled C-R-O-Q-U-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui croque, qui mange.
- 2Celle qui dévore quelque-chose, en profite pleinement.
- 3Dessinatrice de croquis, qui croque en quelques traits des scènes prises sur le vif.
- 4Désigne un joueur manquant régulièrement ses occasions de marquer des buts.
- 5Prostituée.
- 6Machine qui réalise le croquage des tôles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croqueuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait de petites dents de croqueuse de pommes et des joues rondes toujours un peu rouges aux pommettes.
Croqueuse, voire dévoreuse de mâles, elle fut rarement délaissée tant elle aimait dominer.
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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