crabes
\kʁab\
The verdict
“crabes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,585
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crabes · crabes · French
crabes · rank #21,585 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,585
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coupons
Nearest frequency peer: coupons (-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 « crabes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corniche
corniche
78,419 corpus weight
- corvée
corvée
78,418 corpus weight
- coupons
coupons
78,417 corpus weight
- crabes
crabes
78,416 corpus weight
- crocs
crocs
78,415 corpus weight
- culinaires
culinaires
78,414 corpus weight
What this shows « crabes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | crabes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁab\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crabes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around crabes (IPA \kʁab\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,585 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de crabe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for crabes, with forms such as "carbes", "ccrabes", and "crabbes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crâne", "créés", "cubes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crabes, spelled C-R-A-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crabe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crabes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un silence tel qu’il semblait qu’on entendît les crabes marcher dans le sable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carbes
- ccrabes
- crabbes
- crabess
- crabse
- craebs
- crbaes
- crrabes
- rcabes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crabes - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).