cruautés
\kʁy.o.te\
The verdict
“cruautés” is uncommon French (frequency #65,830 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,830
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cruauté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cruautes · cruautés · French
cruautés · rank #65,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,830
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crozet
Nearest frequency peer: Crozet (-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 « cruautés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- croisaient
croisaient
34,174 corpus weight
- croiseront
croiseront
34,173 corpus weight
- Crozet
Crozet
34,172 corpus weight
- cruautés
cruautés
34,171 corpus weight
- cuis
cuis
34,170 corpus weight
- cuissons
cuissons
34,169 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cruautés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cruautés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁy.o.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cruautés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cruautés is uncommon French at frequency #65,830 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁy.o.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de cruauté.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cruautés, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cruautés, spelled C-R-U-A-U-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cruauté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cruautés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous espérâmes, poursuit-elle dans son mémoire, désénivrer le peuple avignonais du sang innocent, dont il s’était abreuvé si lâchement et avec tant de cruautés ; nous offrîmes à sa municipalité des secours, et ils ne furent point acceptés.
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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