crapule
\kʁa.pyl\
The verdict
“crapule” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,368
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , Ivrognerie
Corpus desk
Index FR-crapule · crapule · French
crapule · rank #43,368 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cousteau
Nearest frequency peer: Cousteau (-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 « crapule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cotte
cotte
56,636 corpus weight
- coulis
coulis
56,635 corpus weight
- Cousteau
Cousteau
56,634 corpus weight
- crapule
crapule
56,633 corpus weight
- croisait
croisait
56,631 corpus weight
- Crowley
Crowley
56,630 corpus weight
What this shows « crapule » 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 | crapule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.pyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crapule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around crapule (IPA \kʁa.pyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,368 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for crapule, with forms such as "carpule", "ccrapule", and "craplue". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "craque", "crédule", "crapules", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crapule, spelled C-R-A-P-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1, Ivrognerie
- 2Débauche habituelle et grossière.
- 3Personne abjecte qui a des sentiments bas et est capable des pires actions.
- 4Ensemble d'individus mauvais, malhonnêtes.
- 5Enfant espiègle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crapule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne me faut que des plaisirs purs, et l’argent les empoisonne tous. J’aime, par exemple, ceux de la table ; mais, ne pouvant souffrir ni la gêne de la bonne compagnie, ni la crapule du cabaret, je ne puis les goûter qu'avec un ami ; car seul, cela ne m’est pas possible : mon imagination s’occupe alors d’autre chose, et je n’ai pas le plaisir de manger.
Il se plaît, il est plongé dans la crapule.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carpule
- ccrapule
- craplue
- crappule
- crapuel
- crapulle
- crauple
- crpaule
- crrapule
- rcapule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crapule - 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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