crumble
\kʁœm.bœl\
The verdict
“crumble” is uncommon French (frequency #54,507 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,507
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâteau d’origine britannique composé d’une couche de fruits dans le fond du plat, et d’une couche de pâte à l’apparence émiettée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crumble · crumble · French
crumble · rank #54,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,507
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cranston
Nearest frequency peer: Cranston (-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 « crumble »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Coulommiers
Coulommiers
45,497 corpus weight
- couturières
couturières
45,496 corpus weight
- Cranston
Cranston
45,495 corpus weight
- crumble
crumble
45,494 corpus weight
- cueillies
cueillies
45,493 corpus weight
- culpabilisa…
culpabilisation
45,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crumble » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crumble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁœm.bœl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crumble » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crumble is uncommon French at frequency #54,507 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁœm.bœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crumble has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crumble, spelled C-R-U-M-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Gâteau d’origine britannique composé d’une couche de fruits dans le fond du plat, et d’une couche de pâte à l’apparence émiettée.
- 2Toute préparation similaire pouvant utiliser d’autres ingrédients que des fruits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crumble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Crumble aux pommes.
Crumble de saumon.
Synonyms
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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