craignais
\kʁɛ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“craignais” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,548
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de craindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craignais · craignais · French
craignais · rank #30,548 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,548
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criaient
Nearest frequency peer: criaient (+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 « craignais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couplée
couplée
69,456 corpus weight
- courge
courge
69,455 corpus weight
- craignais
craignais
69,453 corpus weight
- criaient
criaient
69,452 corpus weight
- cristalline
cristalline
69,451 corpus weight
- créatives
créatives
69,450 corpus weight
What this shows « craignais » 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 | craignais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craignais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around craignais (IPA \kʁɛ.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,548 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for craignais, with forms such as "carignais", "ccraignais", and "craginais". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "craignant", "craignait", "craignons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is craignais, spelled C-R-A-I-G-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de craindre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de craindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craignais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je craignais que vous ne vinssiez jamais, répondit Popinot d’un air respectueux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carignais
- ccraignais
- craginais
- craiganis
- craiggnais
- craignaiss
- craignasi
- craignias
- craignnais
- craingais
- criagnais
- crraignais
- rcaignais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craignais - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).