croupe

/\kʁup\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,453

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

croupe is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \kʁup\. Often confused with crue and CROUS.

Key facts for croupe
PropertyValue
Headwordcroupe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁup\
Letters6
Frequency rank#35,453
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of croupe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for croupe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for croupe, with forms such as "ccroupe", "corupe", and "cropue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crue", "CROUS", "croûte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is croupe, spelled C-R-O-U-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Fesses charnues.
  3. 3
    Sommet ou colline de forme arrondie et un peu allongée ; haut d'une montagne qui se prolonge et qui n’est pas à pic.
  4. 4
    Partie 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.
  5. 5
    Pissenlit.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccroupe,corupe,cropue,crouep,crouppe,crroupe,cruope,rcoupe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for croupe

Misspelling Variants of "croupe"

ccroupe7corupe6cropue6crouep6crouppe7crroupe7cruope6rcoupe6
Misspelling Variants of "croupe"

Frequency rank: #35,453 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "croupe"?
"croupe" is spelled C-R-O-U-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁup\.
What does "croupe" mean?
As a noun, "croupe" means: 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.
What words are commonly confused with "croupe"?
"croupe" is commonly confused with "crue", "CROUS", "croûte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croupe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croupe" is \kʁup\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croupe" come from?
"croupe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.