craintif
\kʁɛ̃.tif\
The verdict
“craintif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,438
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sujet à la crainte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craintif · craintif · French
craintif · rank #48,438 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH COV
Nearest frequency peer: COV (-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 « craintif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courra
courra
51,565 corpus weight
- COV
COV
51,564 corpus weight
- craintif
craintif
51,563 corpus weight
- cravache
cravache
51,562 corpus weight
- crescent
crescent
51,561 corpus weight
- CrossFit
CrossFit
51,560 corpus weight
What this shows « craintif » 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 | craintif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɛ̃.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craintif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around craintif (IPA \kʁɛ̃.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,438 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est sujet à la crainte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for craintif, with forms such as "carintif", "ccraintif", and "crainitf". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "craint", "crainte", "craintes", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is craintif, spelled C-R-A-I-N-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est sujet à la crainte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how craintif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après cet affreux, ce double malheur, Modeste devenue fille unique, sans que son père le sût, rendit Dumay, non pas plus dévoué, mais plus craintif que par le passé.
Dès la Saint-Nicolas, on aperçut des loups. Pas les fauves habituels des hivers rigoureux, qui trottinaient vers nous des forêts morvandiaudes, le poil roussâtre, l’échine arquée, craintifs de l’homme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carintif
- ccraintif
- crainitf
- crainntif
- craintfi
- craintiff
- crainttif
- craitnif
- cranitif
- criantif
- crraintif
- rcaintif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craintif - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).