TechCrunch

name

The verdict

“TechCrunch” is uncommon French (frequency #94,329 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,329
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Site d’information américain spécialisé dans l’actualité des startups Internet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-techcrunch · TechCrunch · French

TechCrunch · rank #94,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,329
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH taxidermie

Nearest frequency peer: taxidermie (-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 « TechCrunch »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « TechCrunch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for TechCrunch
PropertyValue
HeadwordTechCrunch
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#94,329
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « TechCrunch » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).TechCrunchtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « taxidermie » (#94,328), « temporellement » (#94,330), « taurin » (#94,327). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « TechCrunch » est au #94,329. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

TechCrunch is uncommon French at frequency #94,329 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Site d’information américain spécialisé dans l’actualité des startups Internet.".

TechCrunch doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 TechCrunch, spelled T-E-C-H-C-R-U-N-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Site d’information américain spécialisé dans l’actualité des startups Internet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how TechCrunch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Dans les moments où vous voulez simplement taper un mot grossier, le clavier l’apprendra aussi », a expliqué Craig Federighi, responsable de l’ingénierie logicielle chez Apple, cité par TechCrunch.
  2. TechCrunch France, version française du blog américain d’information fondée en 2006 par Ouriel Ohayon, annonce aujourd’hui ce qu’il faut malheureusement appeler par son nom : sa fermeture.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "TechCrunch"?
"TechCrunch" is spelled T-E-C-H-C-R-U-N-C-H.
What does "TechCrunch" mean?
As a proper noun, "TechCrunch" means: Site d’information américain spécialisé dans l’actualité des startups Internet.
What language does "TechCrunch" come from?
"TechCrunch" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "TechCrunch", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list