craignent
\kʁɛɲ\
The verdict
“craignent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,943
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de craindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craignent · craignent · French
craignent · rank #12,943 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,943
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrections
Nearest frequency peer: corrections (-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 « craignent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Copenhague
Copenhague
87,061 corpus weight
- corne
corne
87,060 corpus weight
- corrections
corrections
87,059 corpus weight
- craignent
craignent
87,058 corpus weight
- crucial
crucial
87,057 corpus weight
- CSA
CSA
87,056 corpus weight
What this shows « craignent » 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 | craignent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craignent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around craignent (IPA \kʁɛɲ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,943 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for craignent, with forms such as "carignent", "ccraignent", and "craginent". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "craignez", "craignons", "craignant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is craignent, spelled C-R-A-I-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de craindre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de craindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craignent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les unionistes nord-irlandais du DUP craignent que l’appartenance au Royaume-Uni soit menacée depuis la progression des nationalistes républicains du Sinn Féin, partisans d’une réunification avec la République d’Irlande voisine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carignent
- ccraignent
- craginent
- craigennt
- craiggnent
- craignennt
- craignentt
- craignetn
- craignnent
- craignnet
- craingent
- criagnent
- crraignent
- rcaignent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craignent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).