croupir
\kʁu.piʁ\
The verdict
“croupir” is uncommon French (frequency #62,902 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,902
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rester couché dans ses ordures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croupir · croupir · French
croupir · rank #62,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,902
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croitre
Nearest frequency peer: croitre (-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 « croupir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craies
craies
37,103 corpus weight
- crea
crea
37,102 corpus weight
- croitre
croitre
37,100 corpus weight
- croupir
croupir
37,099 corpus weight
- crûment
crûment
37,098 corpus weight
- cyrénaïque
cyrénaïque
37,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croupir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croupir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁu.piʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croupir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croupir is uncommon French at frequency #62,902 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁu.piʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for croupir in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 croupir, spelled C-R-O-U-P-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rester couché dans ses ordures.
- 2Se corrompre et pourrir dans une eau stagnante, en parlant de certaines matières.
- 3Se corrompre, en parlant de l'eau qui stagne trop longtemps.
- 4Rester dans un état misérable sans rien faire pour en sortir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croupir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Sa maison était propre, bien tenue ; elle tranchait avec la blancheur gaie de sa façade et le luisant de ses meubles, sur les taudis immondes où, d’ordinaire, croupissent dans la fange et dans la vermine, les marins bretons.
Deux Canadiens, Michael Kovrig et Michael Spavor, croupissent dans une prison chinoise, arrêtés en riposte à l’arrestation de Meng Wanzhou.
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); 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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