Croy
\kʁwa\
The verdict
“Croy” is uncommon French (frequency #80,095 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,095
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune du canton de Vaud, en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croy · Croy · French
Croy · rank #80,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,095
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crows
Nearest frequency peer: crows (-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 « Croy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crions
crions
19,909 corpus weight
- crows
crows
19,907 corpus weight
- Croy
Croy
19,906 corpus weight
- cuisinait
cuisinait
19,905 corpus weight
- cultivable
cultivable
19,904 corpus weight
- culées
culées
19,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Croy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Croy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Croy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Croy is uncommon French at frequency #80,095 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune du canton de Vaud, en Suisse.".
Croy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Croy, spelled C-R-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune du canton de Vaud, en Suisse.
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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