crainte
\kʁɛ̃t\
The verdict
“crainte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,022
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de craindre ou de redouter quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crainte · crainte · French
crainte · rank #5,022 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,022
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courants
Nearest frequency peer: courants (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “crainte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- connues
connues
94,982 corpus weight
- consacrée
consacrée
94,981 corpus weight
- courants
courants
94,980 corpus weight
- crainte
crainte
94,979 corpus weight
- demandant
demandant
94,978 corpus weight
- divorce
divorce
94,977 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “crainte” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | crainte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crainte” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around crainte (IPA \kʁɛ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,022 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for crainte, with forms such as "carinte", "ccrainte", and "crainet". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "crâne", "cravate", "craintes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 crainte, spelled C-R-A-I-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fait de craindre ou de redouter quelque chose.
- 2Anticipation de graves représailles constituant légalement un vice du consentement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crainte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Semblable à beaucoup de ces entrepreneurs dopés à l’hyper-croissance, Cyborg génère par atavisme, mimétisme cupide, conviction idiote ou crainte pleutre, un comportement déviant auprès de ses plus proches cadres.
Elles en font des chasseresses audacieuses comme elles-mêmes, des guerrières qui se mesurent sans crainte avec les grands fauves, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carinte
- ccrainte
- crainet
- crainnte
- craintte
- craitne
- cranite
- criante
- crrainte
- rcainte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crainte - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crainte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "crainte". Here's where to go from here.
- "crainte" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "crâne". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #5,022 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.