crapules
\kʁa.pyl\
The verdict
“crapules” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,819
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crapule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crapules · crapules · French
crapules · rank #47,819 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,819
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crachats
Nearest frequency peer: crachats (-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 « crapules »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coupoles
coupoles
52,185 corpus weight
- courtisan
courtisan
52,184 corpus weight
- crachats
crachats
52,183 corpus weight
- crapules
crapules
52,182 corpus weight
- croiront
croiront
52,180 corpus weight
- cupcake
cupcake
52,179 corpus weight
What this shows « crapules » 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 | crapules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.pyl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crapules »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around crapules (IPA \kʁa.pyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,819 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de crapule.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for crapules, with forms such as "carpules", "ccrapules", and "craplues". 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, "crédules", "crapule", "capsules", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crapules, spelled C-R-A-P-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crapule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crapules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carpules
- ccrapules
- craplues
- crappules
- crapuels
- crapuless
- crapulles
- crapulse
- crauples
- crpaules
- crrapules
- rcapules
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crapules - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).