croupe
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.
| 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) |
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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
- 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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroupe,corupe,cropue,crouep,crouppe,crroupe,cruope,rcoupe
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Misspelling Variants of "croupe"
Frequency rank: #35,453 in French
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