crack
\kʁak\
The verdict
“crack” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,942
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cheval de course performant ayant remporté de nombreuses victoires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crack · crack · French
crack · rank #11,942 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,942
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coéquipiers
Nearest frequency peer: coéquipiers (-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 « crack »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conscients
conscients
88,062 corpus weight
- conçoit
conçoit
88,061 corpus weight
- coéquipiers
coéquipiers
88,060 corpus weight
- crack
crack
88,059 corpus weight
- croisade
croisade
88,058 corpus weight
- crête
crête
88,057 corpus weight
What this shows « crack » 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 | crack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crack »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crack (IPA \kʁak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,942 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crack, with forms such as "carck", "ccrack", and "cracck". 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, "CRC", "cran", "croc", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crack, spelled C-R-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Cheval de course performant ayant remporté de nombreuses victoires.
- 2Champion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après Aubrion du Gers en 2016, Bel Avis en 2017, le professionnel sarthois devrait inscrire son nom au palmarès de cette finale du GNT pour la troisième année consécutive avec son nouveau "crack". […] Hongre comme Aubrion du Gers, les similitudes entre ces deux cracks de JMB sont nombreuses.
Chez les plus jeunes [athlètes], Parer, du lycée Janson, […] s'annonce comme un futur crack.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carck
- ccrack
- cracck
- crackk
- crakc
- crcak
- crrack
- rcack
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crack - 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 "crack", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).