crowdsourcing
\kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\
The verdict
“crowdsourcing” is uncommon French (frequency #85,607 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,607
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de faire réaliser une tâche par un grand nombre de personnes, surtout des internautes ; production participative.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crowdsourcing · crowdsourcing · French
crowdsourcing · rank #85,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,607
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criarde
Nearest frequency peer: criarde (-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 « crowdsourcing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cracra
cracra
14,397 corpus weight
- criarde
criarde
14,395 corpus weight
- crowdsourci…
crowdsourcing
14,394 corpus weight
- crude
crude
14,393 corpus weight
- cryptogramme
cryptogramme
14,392 corpus weight
- culturale
culturale
14,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crowdsourcing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crowdsourcing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #85,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crowdsourcing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crowdsourcing is uncommon French at frequency #85,607 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait de faire réaliser une tâche par un grand nombre de personnes, surtout des internautes ; production participative.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crowdsourcing in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crowdsourcing, spelled C-R-O-W-D-S-O-U-R-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Fait de faire réaliser une tâche par un grand nombre de personnes, surtout des internautes ; production participative.
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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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