Cré
\kʁe\
The verdict
“Cré” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,203) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,203
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française Cré-sur-Loir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cre · Cré · French
Cré · rank #40,203 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,203
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruciaux
Nearest frequency peer: cruciaux (-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 « Cré »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- coral
coral
59,802 corpus weight
- corbière
corbière
59,801 corpus weight
- Courier
Courier
59,800 corpus weight
- cruciaux
cruciaux
59,799 corpus weight
- Cré
Cré
59,798 corpus weight
- cycliques
cycliques
59,797 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Cré » 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 | Cré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Cré »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cré is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \kʁe\. Frequency #40,203 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Cré doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Cré, spelled C-R-É.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune française Cré-sur-Loir.
- 2Hameau de Gignod.
- 3Hameau de La Salle.
- 4Hameau de Valtournenche.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).