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
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française Cré-sur-Loir.
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) |
Where “Cré” sits in French frequency
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 257,141 “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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Using “Cré”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “CV” - see the side-by-side comparison. Cré vs CV
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Words at a similar French frequency
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.