crac
\kʁak\
The verdict
“crac” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,255
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exprime le bruit que font certains corps, durs, secs et solides, soit en se frottant violemment, soit en éclatant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crac · crac · French
crac · rank #42,255 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,255
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvraient
Nearest frequency peer: couvraient (-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 « crac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Courchevel
Courchevel
57,748 corpus weight
- couvraient
couvraient
57,747 corpus weight
- crac
crac
57,746 corpus weight
- crest
crest
57,745 corpus weight
- crin
crin
57,744 corpus weight
- crucifier
crucifier
57,741 corpus weight
What this shows « crac » 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 | crac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \kʁak\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around crac (IPA \kʁak\), anonomatopoeia. Corpus frequency is #42,255 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for crac, with forms such as "carc", "ccrac", and "cracc". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "cri", "CRS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crac, spelled C-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1Exprime le bruit que font certains corps, durs, secs et solides, soit en se frottant violemment, soit en éclatant.
- 2Marque une rupture dans la suite des événements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Madeleine pinça les lèvres ; ses yeux devinrent secs et bizarres. Brusquement, elle ferma la boîte, l’ouvrit encore, la referma…, crac ! crac !… Et tout à coup ses gros doigts entrèrent dans le carton, brisant le couvercle, aplatissant tout. — Tiens ! dit-elle, je l’ai bien cassée !… Elle n’était pas solide ; je t’en achèterai une autre.
Je ne sais pas ce qui lui a pris, elle bouillait à gros bouillons, j’ai voulu la retirer du feu, crac, quelque chose m’a tourné dans le poignet…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carc
- ccrac
- cracc
- crca
- crrac
- rcac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crac - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crac", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).