crowd
\kɹaʊd\
The verdict
“crowd” is uncommon French (frequency #51,388 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,388
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crowd · crowd · French
crowd · rank #51,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,388
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crécy
Nearest frequency peer: crécy (+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 « crowd »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cousues
cousues
48,617 corpus weight
- couvercles
couvercles
48,616 corpus weight
- crevant
crevant
48,615 corpus weight
- crowd
crowd
48,613 corpus weight
- crécy
crécy
48,612 corpus weight
- crépus
crépus
48,611 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crowd » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crowd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɹaʊd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crowd » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crowd is uncommon French at frequency #51,388 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɹaʊd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crowd, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crowd, spelled C-R-O-W-D.
Definition
- 1Foule.
- 2Assistance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crowd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a huge crowd of people gathered around the accident.
The crowd booed the first boxer at the boxing match.
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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