croulant
\kʁu.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“croulant” is uncommon French (frequency #74,691 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,691
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui croule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croulant · croulant · French
croulant · rank #74,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,691
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cristallisée
Nearest frequency peer: cristallisée (-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 « croulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crades
crades
25,313 corpus weight
- crick
crick
25,312 corpus weight
- cristallisée
cristallisée
25,311 corpus weight
- croulant
croulant
25,310 corpus weight
- croyantes
croyantes
25,309 corpus weight
- cypher
cypher
25,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁu.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croulant is uncommon French at frequency #74,691 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁu.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui croule.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for croulant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is croulant, spelled C-R-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui croule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais sous-préfecture, dans son cachot de murs croulants, n’eut une agonie plus douloureuse.
Cependant nous finissons par découvrir une place inoccupée dans un angle de la kasba, près des murailles de pisé croulantes.
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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