crottin
\kʁɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“crottin” is uncommon French (frequency #62,179 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,179
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fiente, excrément des chevaux et de quelques autres animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crottin · crottin · French
crottin · rank #62,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,179
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruciforme
Nearest frequency peer: cruciforme (+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 « crottin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crews
crews
37,825 corpus weight
- crochu
crochu
37,824 corpus weight
- crottin
crottin
37,822 corpus weight
- cruciforme
cruciforme
37,821 corpus weight
- crudité
crudité
37,820 corpus weight
- CSO
CSO
37,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crottin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crottin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crottin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crottin is uncommon French at frequency #62,179 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crottin, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crottin, spelled C-R-O-T-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Fiente, excrément des chevaux et de quelques autres animaux.
- 2Petit fromage de chèvre rond dont la forme évoque du crottin de cheval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crottin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cryptocoque est cultivable à 38°, en ensemençant, avec du pus aseptique d’abcès, de la gélose au crottin de cheval recouverte d’une macération de ganglions du même animal : […].
Au pied des rochers, il y avait en effet un passage très étroit mais dans lequel Angelo découvrit du crottin frais. Il ne put contenir sa joie et il parla de ce crottin comme de pépites d’or.
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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