crux
French, noun/kʁyks/
crux is spelled C-R-U-X (4 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 93,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crux is a French masculine noun meaning “crux (hardest point of a climb)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passage-clé, séquence de mouvements la plus difficile ou la plus aléatoire d'une voie d’escalade”.
What does crux mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrux (hardest point of a climb)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Passage-clé, séquence de mouvements la plus difficile ou la plus aléatoire d'une voie d’escalade.
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.
How do you pronounce crux?
- /kʁyks/
- /kʁœks/
- \kʁyks\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crux in French?
crux appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).