croupes
\kʁup\
The verdict
“croupes” is uncommon French (frequency #75,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,565
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de croupe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croupes · croupes · French
croupes · rank #75,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,565
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croquante
Nearest frequency peer: croquante (-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 « croupes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crieront
crieront
24,440 corpus weight
- croquante
croquante
24,437 corpus weight
- croupes
croupes
24,436 corpus weight
- créerons
créerons
24,435 corpus weight
- customiser
customiser
24,434 corpus weight
- customisé
customisé
24,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croupes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croupes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁup\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croupes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croupes is uncommon French at frequency #75,565 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁup\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de croupe.".
Zero misspellings are on record for croupes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 croupes, spelled C-R-O-U-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de croupe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croupes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Activités illicites de ces croupes furtives qui, bien entendu, étaient sanctionnées, pénalisées, par les préposés aux bonnes mœurs : nos fameux « garde-caca » de naguère, toujours en kaki, et qui s'efforçaient, en grands stratèges, avec des ruses de sioux, de verbaliser le flagrant délit.
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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