crustacé
\kʁys.ta.se\
The verdict
“crustacé” is uncommon French (frequency #57,856 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,856
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est couvert d’une enveloppe dure et souvent articulée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crustace · crustacé · French
crustacé · rank #57,856 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,856
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cub
Nearest frequency peer: cub (+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 « crustacé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cotise
cotise
42,148 corpus weight
- Coutinho
Coutinho
42,147 corpus weight
- crustacé
crustacé
42,145 corpus weight
- cub
cub
42,144 corpus weight
- cuisinières
cuisinières
42,143 corpus weight
- cultivait
cultivait
42,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crustacé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crustacé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁys.ta.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crustacé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crustacé is uncommon French at frequency #57,856 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁys.ta.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crustacé in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crustacé, spelled C-R-U-S-T-A-C-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est couvert d’une enveloppe dure et souvent articulée.
- 2En forme de croûte difficilement séparable du substrat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crustacé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Crabe , la Favouyo est un animal crustacé , dont nous avons plusieurs espèces ; la plus remarquable est celle qu'on nomme l'Esquinado . Les Crabes ont la queue composée d'écailles , […].
Le thallus des lécanores est toujours crustacé ou tartareux ; il est surtout très-épais et très-développé dans l’espèce dont nous allons parler.
Synonyms
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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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