craque
\kʁak\
The verdict
“craque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,897. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,897
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mensonge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craque · craque · French
craque · rank #14,897 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,897
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craignant
Nearest frequency peer: craignant (-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 « craque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- corresponda…
correspondances
85,108 corpus weight
- craignant
craignant
85,105 corpus weight
- craque
craque
85,104 corpus weight
- critiquent
critiquent
85,103 corpus weight
- cruellement
cruellement
85,102 corpus weight
- créances
créances
85,101 corpus weight
What this shows « craque » 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 | craque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « craque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around craque (IPA \kʁak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,897 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for craque, with forms such as "carque", "ccraque", and "craqeu". 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, "crue", "crau", "croque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 craque, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Mensonge.
- 2Sexe des femmes.
- 3Fente des seins ou des fesses.
- 4Fente, fissure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how craque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Potard.– Mais c’est une craque !… Vous savez bien qu’en été il est fermé, l’Odéon.
Des craques ! des craques ! il vous en contait, ma crédule amie ! avança Pichette.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carque
- ccraque
- craqeu
- craqque
- crauqe
- crqaue
- crraque
- rcaque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of craque - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).