craindre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,648
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
craindre is aFrenchverb. It means: Envisager par la pensée quelqu’un ou quelque chose comme devant être nuisible, dangereux. Pronounced \kʁɛ̃dʁ\. It ranks #5,648 in French word frequency. Often confused with crainte and cylindre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for craindre is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,648 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for craindre, with forms such as "carindre", "ccraindre", and "craidnre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "crainte", "cylindre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is craindre, spelled C-R-A-I-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Envisager par la pensée quelqu’un ou quelque chose comme devant être nuisible, dangereux.
- 2Respecter, révérer.
- 3Être susceptible de subir certaines choses qui peuvent atteindre, endommager ou détruire.
- 4Présenter un risque, être dangereux, en parlant d'une personne ou d'une situation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: carindre,ccraindre,craidnre,crainddre,crainder,craindrre,crainndre,crainrde,cranidre,criandre,crraindre,rcaindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for craindre
Misspelling Variants of "craindre"
Frequency rank: #5,648 in French
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