cratère
\kʁa.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“cratère” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,496 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,496
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vase à deux anses, plus large que profond, d’une grande capacité, contenant du vin et de l’eau mêlés, dont on remplissait les coupes qu’on passait ensuite à chaque convive.
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 | cratère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cratère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cratère is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁa.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,496 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cratère, with forms such as "cartère", "ccratère", and "cratere". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "critère", "critères", "cratères", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 cratère, spelled C-R-A-T-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Vase à deux anses, plus large que profond, d’une grande capacité, contenant du vin et de l’eau mêlés, dont on remplissait les coupes qu’on passait ensuite à chaque convive.
- 2Vase à deux anses, plus large que profond, d’une grande capacité, contenant du vin et de l’eau mêlés, dont on remplissait les coupes qu’on passait ensuite à chaque convive.
- 3Dépression limitée par un bord abrupt, qui peut être circulaire ou elliptique.
- 4Dépression limitée par un bord abrupt, qui peut être circulaire ou elliptique.
- 5Dépression limitée par un bord abrupt, qui peut être circulaire ou elliptique.
- 6Dépression limitée par un bord abrupt, qui peut être circulaire ou elliptique.
- 7Dépression limitée par un bord abrupt, qui peut être circulaire ou elliptique.
- 8Ouverture pratiquée à la partie supérieure d’un fourneau de verrier.
- 9Orifice, trou dans la peau, dû à un furoncle, un bubon, un anthrax…
- 10Creux formé par l’arc électrique à l’extrémité du charbon positif.
- 11Anus.
- 12Sexe féminin insatiable.
- 13Personne laide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cartère,ccratère,cratere,cratrèe,crattère,cratèer,cratèrre,craètre,crratère,crtaère,rcatère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cratère - 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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Using “cratère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-A-T-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁa.tɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “critère” - see the side-by-side comparison. cratère vs critère
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.