crûment
\kʁy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“crûment” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,903 in French word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #62,903
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crûment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kʁy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crûment” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crûment is 7 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁy.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,903 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crûment, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crûment, spelled C-R-Û-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’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.
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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Using “crûment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-Û-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.