Crotone
\kro.ˈto:.ne\
The verdict
“Crotone” is uncommon French (frequency #84,677 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,677
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crotone, commune et ville de la région de Calabre en Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crotone · Crotone · French
Crotone · rank #84,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crotale
Nearest frequency peer: crotale (-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 « Crotone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cringe
cringe
15,328 corpus weight
- crotale
crotale
15,325 corpus weight
- Crotone
Crotone
15,324 corpus weight
- cruze
cruze
15,323 corpus weight
- cryptique
cryptique
15,322 corpus weight
- crépite
crépite
15,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Crotone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crotone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kro.ˈto:.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Crotone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Crotone is uncommon French at frequency #84,677 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kro.ˈto:.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Crotone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Crotone, spelled C-R-O-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Crotone, commune et ville de la région de Calabre en Italie.
- 2Crotone, province autour de cette ville.
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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