crabe

\kʁab\

/\kʁab\/ noun

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The verdict

“crabe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,915
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crustacé décapode, à large carapace, dont on mange la chair.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crabe · crabe · French

crabe · rank #17,915 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,915
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cuisinière

Nearest frequency peer: cuisinière (+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 « crabe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « crabe » 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).

crabe vs Cré
20% similar
crabe vs crée
60% similar
crabe vs Crie
40% similar

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

Key facts for crabe
PropertyValue
Headwordcrabe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁab\
Letters5
Frequency rank#17,915
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crabe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).crabese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cuisinière » (#17,916), « considérons » (#17,913), « câlins » (#17,917). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crabe » est au #17,915. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around crabe (IPA \kʁab\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,915 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for crabe, with forms such as "carbe", "ccrabe", and "crabbe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cré", "crée", "Crie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crabe, spelled C-R-A-B-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Crustacé décapode, à large carapace, dont on mange la chair.
  2. 2
    Cancer (maladie).
  3. 3
    Comédien de second ordre.
  4. 4
    Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est assez peu présent en héraldique française mais plus fréquent en héraldique britannique. Il est généralement représenté vu de dessus, pattes écartées du corps (deux orientées vers le chef, deux vers la pointe), pinces vers le chef. À rapprocher de crevette, écrevisse et homard.
  5. 5
    Tige recourbée permettant de maintenir les planches de coffrage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette biomasse n'est ainsi que peu exploitée sur pied à l’exception de la consommation directe des feuilles et des propagules par des crabes arboricoles (Robertson, 1986) représentés pour les mangroves des Rivières du Sud par deux espèces Goniopsis palii et Sesarma elegans (Zabi et Le Leloeuf, 1992).
  2. Tantôt avec les lassets, tantôt à l’aide de la bourraque, il faisait une petite récolte de ces belles crevettes roses (quand elles sont cuites) et qu’on appelle le bouquet; muni de l’attirail que j’ai décrit plus haut, il se livrait à une guerre acharnée contre toute la légion des crabes, pouparts, claquarts et craparagdis, sans compter les célèbres pieuv…

Synonyms

favouille

This word in other languages

crab(English)cangrejo(Español)Krabbe(Deutsch)caranguejo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • carbe
  • ccrabe
  • crabbe
  • craeb
  • crbae
  • crrabe
  • rcabe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

carbe2ccrabe1crabbe1craeb2crbae2crrabe1rcabe2
Edit distance from "crabe"

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 "crabe"?
"crabe" is spelled C-R-A-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁab\.
What does "crabe" mean?
As a noun, "crabe" means: Crustacé décapode, à large carapace, dont on mange la chair.
What words are commonly confused with "crabe"?
"crabe" is commonly confused with "Cré", "crée", "Crie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crabe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crabe" is \kʁab\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crabe" come from?
"crabe" 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 "crabe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

déchu#17,934exilé#17,950arête#17,875glass#17,964

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

applis7 variantsirons7 variantslança7 variantsliant7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list