croûter
\kʁu.te\
The verdict
“croûter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manger, casser la croute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crouter · croûter · French
croûter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | croûter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁu.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croûter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croûter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for croûter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 croûter, spelled C-R-O-Û-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Manger, casser la croute.
- 2Couvrir d’une croûte, former une croûte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croûter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi pas, répliqua Fernand-le-Fou, Casimir tient pension de famille, on aura toujours à croûter.
N’importe quoi mais manger ! Neuf heures dix ! Il n’y a rien à croûter, ici ?
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.