CRC
The verdict
“CRC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,205) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,205
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil logiciel permettant de détecter les erreurs de transmission ou de transfert des données.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crc · CRC · French
CRC · rank #41,205 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,205
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craquent
Nearest frequency peer: craquent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « CRC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cra
cra
58,800 corpus weight
- crans
crans
58,799 corpus weight
- crapauds
crapauds
58,798 corpus weight
- craquent
craquent
58,797 corpus weight
- CRC
CRC
58,796 corpus weight
- criss
criss
58,794 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CRC » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | CRC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CRC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CRC is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #41,205 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for CRC in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is CRC, spelled C-R-C.
Definition
- 1Outil logiciel permettant de détecter les erreurs de transmission ou de transfert des données.
- 2En France, comité régional conchylicole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CRC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les professionnels et adhérents de Navicule bleue, Atelier des gens de mer et Terre-Mer Chantiers, dont certains sont issus de la SNSM (société nationale des sauveteurs en mer), ont développé des activités maritimes accessibles à terre en partenariat avec le Comité régional conchylicole (CRC) et le Comité régional des pêches et des élevages marins (CRPMEM).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).