craint
\kʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“craint” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,477
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de craindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craint · craint · French
craint · rank #4,477 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,477
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constante
Nearest frequency peer: constante (-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 « craint »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commerciaux
commerciaux
95,527 corpus weight
- constamment
constamment
95,526 corpus weight
- constante
constante
95,525 corpus weight
- craint
craint
95,524 corpus weight
- crier
crier
95,523 corpus weight
- criminel
criminel
95,522 corpus weight
What this shows « craint » 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 | craint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craint »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around craint (IPA \kʁɛ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,477 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 craint, with forms such as "carint", "ccraint", and "crainnt". 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, "cran", "crit", "crin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is craint, spelled C-R-A-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de craindre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de craindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how craint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ahuri, Jodot hésita, cria, saisit sa poche, la redéposa comme s’il eût craint de ne pouvoir courir assez vite avec ce fardeau… bref, fut mis hors de cause.
Diégo fume, mon père qui ne fume point, et ne peut supporter l’odeur du tabac, craint de me rendre malheureuse en me donnant un époux oisif les jours de pluie, et qui serait pour lui un voisin très incommode à cause des nombreux cigaritos qu’il fumerait, cigaritos dont le prix augmenterait considérablement notre dépense.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carint
- ccraint
- crainnt
- craintt
- craitn
- cranit
- crraint
- rcaint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craint - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).