crosne
\kʁon\
The verdict
“crosne” is uncommon French (frequency #97,826 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,826
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des lamiacées originaire du Nord-Ouest de la Chine et cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles. Le terme désigne aussi ces tubercules consommables comme légumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crosne · crosne · French
crosne · rank #97,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,826
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croqueuse
Nearest frequency peer: croqueuse (-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 « crosne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- crédence
crédence
2,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crosne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crosne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁon\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crosne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crosne is uncommon French at frequency #97,826 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁon\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante de la famille des lamiacées originaire du Nord-Ouest de la Chine et cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles. Le terme désigne aussi ces tubercules consommables comme légumes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crosne, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crosne, spelled C-R-O-S-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des lamiacées originaire du Nord-Ouest de la Chine et cultivée pour ses tubercules comestibles. Le terme désigne aussi ces tubercules consommables comme légumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crosne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le goût de noisette des crosnes rappelle celui des salsifis ou de l’artichaut.
Il fut gracié le 1ᵉʳ janvier 1855, et rentra en France avec un plan très complet d’acclimatation, dans la terre algérienne, de la culture du manioc, des crosnes et de la pomme de terre dite saucissse.
Synonyms
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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