vieux crabe
\vjø kʁab\
The verdict
“vieux crabe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a beaucoup d’expérience.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieux-crabe · vieux crabe · French
vieux crabe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | vieux crabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjø kʁab\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vieux crabe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vieux crabe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vjø kʁab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui a beaucoup d’expérience.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vieux crabe in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 vieux crabe, spelled V-I-E-U-X- -C-R-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a beaucoup d’expérience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieux crabe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait là-bas un vieux crabe. Ils l’avaient coxé sur la frontière de Chine, au bout du monde.
Se donner déjà dans l’avant-propos, et puis dans la préface, l’avertissement, le prologue, comme dans les bouquins à ces vieux crabes qu’en finissent pas de préambuler pour expliquer la chierie bâilleuse de ce qu’ils tartinent.
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.