riche comme Crésus
\ʁiʃ kɔm kʁe.zys\
The verdict
“riche comme Crésus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très riche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riche-comme-cresus · riche comme Crésus · French
riche comme Crésus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
riche comme Crésus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁiʃ kɔm kʁe.zys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how riche comme Crésus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, elle vous aimait, la petite ; et, son frère mort, la voilà riche comme Crésus.
La femme avait réagi ([…]) en lui assenant quelques bons coups de poêle sur le crâne, tant elle était furieuse d’apprendre qu’ils avaient trimé dans la plus grande pauvreté durant toutes ces années, alors qu’il était riche comme Crésus.
This word in other languages
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