croupe
\kʁup\
The verdict
“croupe” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #35,453 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #35,453
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie arrière du corps de quadrupèdes, tel le cheval, située après les reins (région lombaire) et les hanches mais avant la queue, et qui correspond aux fesses chez l’homme.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁup\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “croupe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for croupe is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁup\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,453 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for croupe, with forms such as "ccroupe", "corupe", and "cropue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crue", "CROUS", "croûte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is croupe, spelled C-R-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1Partie arrière du corps de quadrupèdes, tel le cheval, située après les reins (région lombaire) et les hanches mais avant la queue, et qui correspond aux fesses chez l’homme.
- 2Fesses charnues.
- 3Sommet ou colline de forme arrondie et un peu allongée ; haut d'une montagne qui se prolonge et qui n’est pas à pic.
- 4Partie arrondie du comble qui surmonte le chevet d’une église, qui forme le prolongement d’un mur de pignon et qui se rattache aux deux égouts du toit par des arêtiers.
- 5Pissenlit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroupe,corupe,cropue,crouep,crouppe,crroupe,cruope,rcoupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croupe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “croupe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-O-U-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁup\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “crue” - see the side-by-side comparison. croupe vs crue
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.