croupière
\kʁu.pjɛʁ\
The verdict
“croupière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de cuir rembourré, que l’on passe sous la queue d’un cheval, d’un mulet, etc., et qui, tenant à la selle ou au bât, l’empêche d’avancer sur le garrot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croupiere · croupière · French
croupière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croupière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁu.pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croupière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croupière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁu.pjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for croupière, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is croupière, spelled C-R-O-U-P-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau de cuir rembourré, que l’on passe sous la queue d’un cheval, d’un mulet, etc., et qui, tenant à la selle ou au bât, l’empêche d’avancer sur le garrot.
- 2Pièce d’armure du cheval.
- 3Amarre qui pend à l’arrière d’un grand bâtiment. (voir croupiat)
- 4Attache d'un câble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croupière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La croupière se compose de la fourche, du corps de croupière et du culeron. La fourche Z est la partie antérieure; elle se fixe, en avant, par ses branches Œ, aux boutons de croupière, et présente, en arrière, une boucle enchapée et une mortaise pour l'attache du corps de croupière.
La rosse était haute, cagneuse, osseuse, sans poils à la crinière … ; la croupière lui déchirait la queue ; un séton suintait à son poitrail.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.