croton
\kʁɔ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“croton” is uncommon French (frequency #88,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,501
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste genre de la famille des Euphorbiacées (Croton spp.) comprenant près de 1,300 espèces, dont plusieurs contiennent des alcaloïdes d’usage pharmacologique important.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croton · croton · French
croton · rank #88,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,501
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crucifie
Nearest frequency peer: crucifie (+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 « croton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coursera
coursera
11,505 corpus weight
- crayeux
crayeux
11,504 corpus weight
- croisiérist…
croisiéristes
11,502 corpus weight
- croton
croton
11,500 corpus weight
- crucifie
crucifie
11,499 corpus weight
- cryptograph…
cryptographique
11,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croton is uncommon French at frequency #88,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for croton, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 croton, spelled C-R-O-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vaste genre de la famille des Euphorbiacées (Croton spp.) comprenant près de 1,300 espèces, dont plusieurs contiennent des alcaloïdes d’usage pharmacologique important.
- 2Nom donné familièrement au Codiaeum variegatum, qui n’est pas un croton véritable (cf. Croton, sens 1) bien qu'appartenant à la même famille, et dont les innombrables variétés horticoles ont un feuillage vivement chamarré et sont très populaires comme plantes décoratives.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une espèce de croton (le croton cathartique, Croton tiglium) fournit une huile connue sous le nom d’huile de croton.
Il y a plus de 650 espèces dans le monde — parmi lesquelles l’hévéa ou arbre à caoutchouc, le manioc et le ricin, plantes tropicales —, dont 50 en France avec des échappées et des ornementales introduites (poinsettia, épine du Christ, croton…).
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); 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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