crûment
\kʁy.mɑ̃\
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
- crea
crea
37,102 corpus weight
- croitre
croitre
37,100 corpus weight
- croupir
croupir
37,099 corpus weight
- crûment
crûment
37,098 corpus weight
- cyrénaïque
cyrénaïque
37,096 corpus weight
- damnée
damnée
37,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crûment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « crûment » en français
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
- 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crûment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hulot m’a donné le droit, comme je vous disais, de poser le marché, tout crûment, et il ne se fâchera pas.
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.
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