cruciforme
\kʁy.si.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“cruciforme” is uncommon French (frequency #62,180 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,180
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en forme de croix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cruciforme · cruciforme · French
cruciforme · rank #62,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,180
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crottin
Nearest frequency peer: crottin (-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 « cruciforme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crochu
crochu
37,824 corpus weight
- crottin
crottin
37,822 corpus weight
- cruciforme
cruciforme
37,821 corpus weight
- crudité
crudité
37,820 corpus weight
- CSO
CSO
37,819 corpus weight
- cumulative
cumulative
37,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cruciforme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cruciforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁy.si.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cruciforme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cruciforme is uncommon French at frequency #62,180 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁy.si.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cruciforme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 cruciforme, spelled C-R-U-C-I-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est en forme de croix.
- 2Dont les pétales sont disposés en forme de croix.
- 3Se dit d’un cristal composé de deux autres qui se croisent de manière que les pans de l’un soient perpendiculaires à ceux de l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruciforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous ne l’ignorez pas, presque toutes nos cathédrales sont cruciformes ; dans la primitive Église, il est vrai, vous trouverez un certain nombre de sanctuaires bâtis en rotonde et coiffés d’un dôme […]
Veux-tu me passer le tournevis cruciforme ?
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.
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