crame

\kʁam\

/\kʁam\/ verb

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The verdict

“crame” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,887
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cramer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crame · crame · French

crame · rank #35,887 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,887
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Cortez

Nearest frequency peer: Cortez (-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 « crame »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « crame » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

crame vs CRM
0% similar
crame vs Cré
20% similar
crame vs crée
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for crame
PropertyValue
Headwordcrame
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁam\
Letters5
Frequency rank#35,887
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crame »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cramese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Cortez » (#35,886), « crampe » (#35,888), « coroner » (#35,885). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crame » est au #35,887. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around crame (IPA \kʁam\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,887 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for crame, with forms such as "carme", "ccrame", and "cramme". 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, "CRM", "Cré", "crée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is crame, spelled C-R-A-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cramer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cramer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de cramer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de cramer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de cramer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • carme
  • ccrame
  • cramme
  • crmae
  • crrame
  • rcame

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crame - 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.

carme2ccrame1cramme1crmae2crrame1rcame2
Edit distance from "crame"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crame"?
"crame" is spelled C-R-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁam\.
What does "crame" mean?
As a verb, "crame" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de cramer.
What words are commonly confused with "crame"?
"crame" is commonly confused with "CRM", "Cré", "crée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crame"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crame" is \kʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crame" come from?
"crame" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crame", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Dinan#35,898bette#35,827fluor#35,950Batna#35,823

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

frire6 variantsamigo6 variantsaffine6 variantsHahn6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list