cra
\kʁa\
The verdict
“cra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,201) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,201
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - très
Corpus desk
Index FR-cra · cra · French
cra · rank #41,201 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,201
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH covers
Nearest frequency peer: covers (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cra »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- coudées
coudées
58,803 corpus weight
- couettes
couettes
58,802 corpus weight
- covers
covers
58,801 corpus weight
- cra
cra
58,800 corpus weight
- crans
crans
58,799 corpus weight
- crapauds
crapauds
58,798 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « cra » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | cra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kʁa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cra »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cra is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \kʁa\. Frequency #41,201 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "très".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cra, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cra, spelled C-R-A.
Definition
- 1très
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa biaude d'Ex est cra Zaloeil.
Synonyms
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).