crûment

\kʁy.mɑ̃\

/\kʁy.mɑ̃\/ adv

The verdict

“crûment” is uncommon French (frequency #62,903 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,903
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crument · crûment · French

crûment · rank #62,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,903
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH croupir

Nearest frequency peer: croupir (-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 « crûment »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crûment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crûment
PropertyValue
Headwordcrûment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\kʁy.mɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#62,903
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crûment » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.crûmenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « croupir » (#62,902), « croitre » (#62,901), « cyrénaïque » (#62,905). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crûment » est au #62,903. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crûment is uncommon French at frequency #62,903 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kʁy.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

  1. 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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how crûment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Hulot m’a donné le droit, comme je vous disais, de poser le marché, tout crûment, et il ne se fâchera pas.
  2. Telle était du moins mon opinion, et, sans avoir à ménager l’auteur, dont j’ignorais le nom, je la fis connaître à Dominique aussi crûment que je l’écris.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crûment"?
"crûment" is spelled C-R-Û-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁy.mɑ̃\.
What does "crûment" mean?
As an adverb, "crûment" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "crûment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crûment" is \kʁy.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crûment" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crûment", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list