riche comme Crésus
\ʁiʃ kɔm kʁe.zys\
The verdict
“riche comme Crésus” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Très riche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riche comme Crésus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁiʃ kɔm kʁe.zys\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “riche comme Crésus” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for riche comme Crésus is 18 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁiʃ kɔm kʁe.zys\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Très riche.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for riche comme Crésus, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is riche comme Crésus, spelled R-I-C-H-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -C-R-É-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Très riche.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “riche comme Crésus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-I-C-H-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -C-R-É-S-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁiʃ kɔm kʁe.zys\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.