cryptogramme
\kʁip.tɔ.ɡʁam\
The verdict
“cryptogramme” is uncommon French (frequency #85,609 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,609
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Message chiffré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cryptogramme · cryptogramme · French
cryptogramme · rank #85,609 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,609
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crude
Nearest frequency peer: crude (-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 « cryptogramme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- criarde
criarde
14,395 corpus weight
- crowdsourci…
crowdsourcing
14,394 corpus weight
- crude
crude
14,393 corpus weight
- cryptogramme
cryptogramme
14,392 corpus weight
- culturale
culturale
14,391 corpus weight
- culturisme
culturisme
14,390 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cryptogramme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cryptogramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁip.tɔ.ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cryptogramme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cryptogramme is uncommon French at frequency #85,609 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁip.tɔ.ɡʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cryptogramme, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cryptogramme, spelled C-R-Y-P-T-O-G-R-A-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Message chiffré.
- 2Problème à résoudre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cryptogramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jules Verne utilise plusieurs fois les cryptogrammes dans ses romans. Dans La Jangada, un juge doit déchiffrer un message pour sauver un condamné. Dans Voyage au centre de la Terre, le professeur Lidenbrock doit résoudre le mystère d'un parchemin sur lequel est inscrit un message incompréhensible en signes runiques.
On soupçonna dès lors l’anagramme de Grosser d’être une pure coïncidence, et l’hypothèse chrétienne fut contestée par ceux qui jugeaient improbable, à cette date, la création d’un tel cryptogramme par des chrétiens, voire l’existence même d’une communauté chrétienne à Pompéi.
This word in other languages
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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