Croissant
[kʁo̯aˈsɑ̃ː]
The verdict
“Croissant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,050
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein süßes oder herzhaftes Gebäck aus Blätterteig in Form eines Horns
Corpus desk
Index DE-croissant · Croissant · German
Croissant · rank #48,050 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,050
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH curve
Nearest frequency peer: curve (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Croissant“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- coolness
coolness
51,955 corpus weight
- Cortex
Cortex
51,954 corpus weight
- Croissant
Croissant
51,951 corpus weight
- curve
curve
51,950 corpus weight
- CVJM
CVJM
51,949 corpus weight
- DAAD
DAAD
51,948 corpus weight
What this shows „Croissant“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Croissant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁo̯aˈsɑ̃ː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Croissant“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Croissant (IPA [kʁo̯aˈsɑ̃ː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,050 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ein süßes oder herzhaftes Gebäck aus Blätterteig in Form eines Horns".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Croissant, with forms such as "ccroissant", "corissant", and "criossant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Croissants", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Croissant, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1ein süßes oder herzhaftes Gebäck aus Blätterteig in Form eines Horns
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Croissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zum Frühstück isst Klaus zwei Croissants mit Butter und Marmelade.
„Vom Bäcker an der Ecke weht der Duft von Baguettes und Croissants über die Straße.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroissant
- corissant
- criossant
- croisant
- croisasnt
- croissannt
- croissantt
- croissatn
- croissnat
- croißant
- crosisant
- crroissant
- rcoissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Croissant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Croissant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).