crux
\kʁyks\
The verdict
“crux” is uncommon French (frequency #93,648 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,648
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage-clé, séquence de mouvements la plus difficile ou la plus aléatoire d'une voie d’escalade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crux · crux · French
crux · rank #93,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,648
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH créerai
Nearest frequency peer: créerai (+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 « crux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- craignions
craignions
6,358 corpus weight
- crater
crater
6,357 corpus weight
- crux
crux
6,353 corpus weight
- créerai
créerai
6,352 corpus weight
- crénelé
crénelé
6,351 corpus weight
- Curtin
Curtin
6,348 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁyks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crux is uncommon French at frequency #93,648 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁyks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passage-clé, séquence de mouvements la plus difficile ou la plus aléatoire d'une voie d’escalade.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crux, spelled C-R-U-X.
Definition
- 1Passage-clé, séquence de mouvements la plus difficile ou la plus aléatoire d'une voie d’escalade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rikar Otegui escalada « onsight » le crux de la voie – une dalle horizontale –, en l’assurant à l’aide de coinceurs.
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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