crowdsourcing

\kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\

/\kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crowdsourcing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crowdsourcing
PropertyValue
Headwordcrowdsourcing
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#85,607
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crowdsourcing » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).crowdsourcingtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « criarde » (#85,606), « crude » (#85,608), « cryptogramme » (#85,609). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crowdsourcing » est au #85,607. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Fait de faire réaliser une tâche par un grand nombre de personnes, surtout des internautes ; production participative.

Synonyms

approvisionnement par la fouleexternalisation à grande échelleexternalisation ouverteexternalisation vers la multitudeimpartition à grande échelleproduction collaborativeproduction participativetravail collaboratif

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crowdsourcing"?
"crowdsourcing" is spelled C-R-O-W-D-S-O-U-R-C-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\.
What does "crowdsourcing" mean?
As a noun, "crowdsourcing" means: Fait de faire réaliser une tâche par un grand nombre de personnes, surtout des internautes ; production participative.
How do you pronounce "crowdsourcing"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crowdsourcing" is \kʁɔd.suʁ.siŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crowdsourcing" come from?
"crowdsourcing" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crowdsourcing", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list