chrétien

\kʁe.tjɛ̃\

/\kʁe.tjɛ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“chrétien” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,056
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui professe la religion issue des enseignements de Jésus-Christ.

Corpus desk

Index FR-chretien · chrétien · French

chrétien · rank #4,056 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,056
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chats

Nearest frequency peer: chats (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « chrétien »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « chrétien » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

chrétien vs crétin
75% similar
chrétien vs chrétiens
89% similar
chrétien vs chrétienne
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for chrétien
PropertyValue
Headwordchrétien
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kʁe.tjɛ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,056
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chrétien »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).chrétiense place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « chats » (#4,055), « compétence » (#4,057), « charbon » (#4,054). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « chrétien » est au #4,056. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around chrétien (IPA \kʁe.tjɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,056 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for chrétien, with forms such as "cchrétien", "chhrétien", and "chretien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "crétin", "chrétiens", "chrétienne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is chrétien, spelled C-H-R-É-T-I-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui professe la religion issue des enseignements de Jésus-Christ.
  2. 2
    Qui appartient ou qui est propre au christianisme.
  3. 3
    Qui adopte un comportement généreux, supposé conforme aux préceptes de la religion de Jésus-Christ.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le rapport qui existe entre la doctrine chrétienne et la rectitude des mœurs, Taine le lui avait montré : chaque fois que l’homme se fait païen, il se retrouve voluptueux et dur.
  2. Sur le front, juste au milieu, la croix berbère était tracée en bleu, symbole inconnu, inexplicable chez ces peuplades autochtones qui ne furent jamais chrétiennes et que l’islam vint prendre toutes sauvages et fétichistes, pour sa grande floraison de foi et d’espérance.

This word in other languages

Christian(English)cristiano(Español)Christ(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cchrétien
  • chhrétien
  • chretien
  • chrrétien
  • chrtéien
  • chréiten
  • chrétein
  • chrétienn
  • chrétine
  • chréttien
  • chértien
  • crhétien
  • hcrétien

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chrétien - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cchrétien1chhrétien1chretien1chrrétien1chrtéien2chréiten2chrétein2chrétienn1
Edit distance from "chrétien"

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 "chrétien"?
"chrétien" is spelled C-H-R-É-T-I-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁe.tjɛ̃\.
What does "chrétien" mean?
As an adjective, "chrétien" means: Qui professe la religion issue des enseignements de Jésus-Christ.
What words are commonly confused with "chrétien"?
"chrétien" is commonly confused with "crétin", "chrétiens", "chrétienne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chrétien"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chrétien" is \kʁe.tjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chrétien" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ceinture#4,052banlieue#4,043déplacer#4,069environs#4,073

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

reportage13 variantslibertés13 variantsfenêtres13 variantsargentine13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list