croûtons
\kʁu.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“croûtons” is uncommon French (frequency #53,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,883
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de croûton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croutons · croûtons · French
croûtons · rank #53,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crémieux
Nearest frequency peer: Crémieux (+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 « croûtons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cousus
cousus
46,122 corpus weight
- covenant
covenant
46,121 corpus weight
- crispation
crispation
46,120 corpus weight
- croûtons
croûtons
46,118 corpus weight
- Crémieux
Crémieux
46,117 corpus weight
- Cyclades
Cyclades
46,116 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croûtons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croûtons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁu.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croûtons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croûtons is uncommon French at frequency #53,883 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁu.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de croûton.".
croûtons has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croûtons, spelled C-R-O-Û-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de croûton.
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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