crustacé
French, noun/kʁys.ta.se/
crustacé is spelled C-R-U-S-T-A-C-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,843rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crustacé is a French masculine noun meaning “crustacean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “(Zoologie/Cuisine) (Courant) Animal ou animalcule d’un sous-embranchement des arthropodes que l’on nomme les…”.
What does crustacé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
crustaceous
noun
- 1
masculinecrustacean
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est couvert d’une enveloppe dure et souvent articulée. 2. En forme de croûte difficilement séparable du substrat.
noun: 1. (Zoologie/Cuisine) (Courant) Animal ou animalcule d’un sous-embranchement des arthropodes que l’on nomme les Crustacés et dont la plupart des espèces sont marines.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crustacé
- crustacée feminine
- crustacés masculine plural
- crustacées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crustacé?
- /kʁys.ta.se/
- \kʁys.ta.se\
- [kʁys.ta.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crustacé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crustacé in French?
crustacé appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).