crudité
\kʁy.di.te\
The verdict
“crudité” is uncommon French (frequency #62,181 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,181
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est cru.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crudite · crudité · French
crudité · rank #62,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,181
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruciforme
Nearest frequency peer: cruciforme (-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 « crudité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- curée
curée
37,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crudité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crudité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁy.di.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crudité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crudité is uncommon French at frequency #62,181 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁy.di.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crudité, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crudité, spelled C-R-U-D-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est cru.
- 2Aliments crus.
- 3Aigreurs qui proviennent d’aliments mal digérés.
- 4Effet des tons crus, des couleurs crues.
- 5Mot déplacé, trait inconvenant dans un ouvrage d’esprit ou dans la conversation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crudité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La crudité des fruits.
Manger des crudités.
Antonyms
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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