crûment
French, adverb
crûment is spelled C-R-Û-M-E-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,878th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crûment is a French adverb meaning “dryly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, crument is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of crûment”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D’une manière sèche et dure, sans aucun ménagement, sans prendre la peine d’adoucir ce qu’il y a de blessant…”.
What does crûment mean in English?
adverb
- 1
dryly
- 2
harshly
adverb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of crûment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. D’une manière sèche et dure, sans aucun ménagement, sans prendre la peine d’adoucir ce qu’il y a de blessant dans ce qu’on a à dire.
adverb: 1. → voir crûment
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crûment
- crument alternative
- crûment
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to crûment
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crûment in French?
crûment appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).