cru
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,326
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cru is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas cuit. Pronounced \kʁy\. It ranks #1,326 in French word frequency. Often confused with CV and Ct.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kʁy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cru is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁy\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,326 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cru in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cru, spelled C-R-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas cuit.
- 2Très indigeste.
- 3Qui ne cuit pas les légumes, qui ne dissout pas le savon, en parlant d’une eau.
- 4Qui n’a pas subi de transformation.
- 5Désagréable et dit sans aucun ménagement, sans prendre de précaution.
- 6Indécent.
- 7Qui ne se marie pas, qui ne se fond pas avec le ton qui l’avoisine, en parlant d’un ton en peinture.
- 8Qui tranche nettement, en parlant d’une couleur, d’une lumière, d’une ombre…
- 9En parlant du temps, froid et humide.
- 10Qualifie une eau dont la teneur en ions calcium et magnésium dépasse un certain seuil.
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Frequency rank: #1,326 in French
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