crumb
[kɹʌm]
The verdict
“crumb” is uncommon French (frequency #89,575 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,575
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miette (sens propre et figuré).
Corpus desk
Index FR-crumb · crumb · French
crumb · rank #89,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,575
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croupissent
Nearest frequency peer: croupissent (-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 « crumb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coward
coward
10,430 corpus weight
- CRISPR
CRISPR
10,428 corpus weight
- croupissent
croupissent
10,427 corpus weight
- crumb
crumb
10,426 corpus weight
- crénelée
crénelée
10,424 corpus weight
- cuc
cuc
10,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crumb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crumb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɹʌm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crumb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crumb is uncommon French at frequency #89,575 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɹʌm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crumb in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crumb, spelled C-R-U-M-B.
Definition
- 1Miette (sens propre et figuré).
- 2Mie.
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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