crossed
\ˈkɹɑst\
The verdict
“crossed” is uncommon French (frequency #86,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,588
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de cross.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crossed · crossed · French
crossed · rank #86,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,588
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croies
Nearest frequency peer: croies (-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 « crossed »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craquait
craquait
13,417 corpus weight
- creusaient
creusaient
13,416 corpus weight
- croies
croies
13,414 corpus weight
- crossed
crossed
13,413 corpus weight
- crucis
crucis
13,412 corpus weight
- crématoires
crématoires
13,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crossed » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crossed |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈkɹɑst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crossed » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crossed is uncommon French at frequency #86,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈkɹɑst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crossed in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crossed, spelled C-R-O-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de cross.
- 2Participe passé de cross.
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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