croulent
\kʁul\
The verdict
“croulent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,393 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,393
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de crouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croulent · croulent · French
croulent · rank #77,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,393
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crocos
Nearest frequency peer: crocos (-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 « croulent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criants
criants
22,612 corpus weight
- crispations
crispations
22,611 corpus weight
- critiquais
critiquais
22,610 corpus weight
- crocos
crocos
22,609 corpus weight
- croulent
croulent
22,608 corpus weight
- crématoire
crématoire
22,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croulent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁul\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croulent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croulent is uncommon French at frequency #77,393 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for croulent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is croulent, spelled C-R-O-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de crouler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de crouler.
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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