crampons
\kʁɑ̃.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“crampons” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,157
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crampon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crampons · crampons · French
crampons · rank #23,157 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coûteuses
Nearest frequency peer: coûteuses (-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 « crampons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contractuel…
contractuelle
76,847 corpus weight
- coûtait
coûtait
76,846 corpus weight
- coûteuses
coûteuses
76,845 corpus weight
- crampons
crampons
76,844 corpus weight
- critiquant
critiquant
76,843 corpus weight
- croie
croie
76,842 corpus weight
What this shows « crampons » 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 | crampons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɑ̃.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crampons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around crampons (IPA \kʁɑ̃.pɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,157 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for crampons, with forms such as "carmpons", "ccrampons", and "crammpons". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "crayons", "campos", "camions", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crampons, spelled C-R-A-M-P-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crampon.
- 2Paire de chaussures de sport équipées de crampons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crampons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au foot, le ballon de la Ligue 1 (et bientôt de la Ligue Europa) est un Kipsta, et, selon une info de Foot Mercato, Antoine Griezmann pourrait troquer Puma pour Decathlon, qui entrerait par la grande porte sur le marché des crampons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carmpons
- ccrampons
- crammpons
- cramopns
- crampnos
- cramponns
- cramponss
- cramposn
- cramppons
- crapmons
- crmapons
- crrampons
- rcampons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crampons - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).