crotteux
\kʁɔ.tø\
The verdict
“crotteux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a des excréments sur lui, sale, boueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crotteux · crotteux · French
crotteux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crotteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.tø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
crotteux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁɔ.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a des excréments sur lui, sale, boueux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crotteux in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crotteux, spelled C-R-O-T-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a des excréments sur lui, sale, boueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crotteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quoi qu’il en soit, pour lui, privatiser FR3 sonne comme une insulte personnelle : lui qui, avec ses amis, a convaincu le pays de prendre le virage du « moins d’État » en tout chose, va se retrouver à coprivatiser une sous-chaîne, le rebut du service public, un machin provincial et crotteux dont nul ne veut, une usine à gaz de sous-préfecture !
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