crusher

\kʁœ.ʃe\

/\kʁœ.ʃe\/ verb

The verdict

“crusher” is uncommon French (frequency #57,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,196
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être sous les charmes d’une personne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crusher · crusher · French

crusher · rank #57,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,196
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH croisillon

Nearest frequency peer: croisillon (-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 « crusher »

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 « crusher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crusher
PropertyValue
Headwordcrusher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁœ.ʃe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#57,196
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crusher » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).crushertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « croisillon » (#57,195), « crochus » (#57,194), « critiquaient » (#57,193). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crusher » est au #57,196. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crusher is uncommon French at frequency #57,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁœ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être sous les charmes d’une personne.".

Zero misspellings are on record for crusher in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crusher, spelled C-R-U-S-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être sous les charmes d’une personne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je me sens bizarre se peut être crusher sur ce gars... Yavait un autre gars l'année passée sur qui je crushais fuuulll alors ca me fait bizarre de commencer a meloigner du gars dont je crushais l'année passée.... En me dusant que je crush peut etre sur le gars qui as accepter ma demande sut Snapchat…
  2. La dernière fois que je me suis senti pleinement heureux, c'est quand je me suis mis en couple avec la fille sur laquelle je crushais depuis deux ans (mais on a cassé depuis.. Donc vite envolé..)

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 "crusher"?
"crusher" is spelled C-R-U-S-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁœ.ʃe\.
What does "crusher" mean?
As a verb, "crusher" means: Être sous les charmes d’une personne.
How do you pronounce "crusher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crusher" is \kʁœ.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crusher" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crusher", 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