craintes
\kʁɛ̃t\
The verdict
“craintes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,479
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crainte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craintes · craintes · French
craintes · rank #10,479 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,479
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cracher
Nearest frequency peer: cracher (-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 « craintes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contours
contours
89,525 corpus weight
- couvertures
couvertures
89,524 corpus weight
- cracher
cracher
89,523 corpus weight
- craintes
craintes
89,522 corpus weight
- cultes
cultes
89,521 corpus weight
- cylindres
cylindres
89,520 corpus weight
What this shows « craintes » 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 | craintes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craintes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around craintes (IPA \kʁɛ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,479 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de crainte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for craintes, with forms such as "carintes", "ccraintes", and "crainets". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "crânes", "cravates", "craintif", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is craintes, spelled C-R-A-I-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crainte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craintes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après deux heures de soins et de craintes, la camériste et moi nous recouchâmes sa maîtresse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carintes
- ccraintes
- crainets
- crainntes
- craintess
- craintse
- crainttes
- craitnes
- cranites
- criantes
- crraintes
- rcaintes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craintes - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "craintes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).