créatures
\kʁe.a.tyʁ\
The verdict
“créatures” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,650
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de créature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creatures · créatures · French
créatures · rank #5,650 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cri
Nearest frequency peer: cri (-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 « créatures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- correct
correct
94,354 corpus weight
- craindre
craindre
94,353 corpus weight
- cri
cri
94,352 corpus weight
- créatures
créatures
94,351 corpus weight
- deuil
deuil
94,349 corpus weight
- dépendance
dépendance
94,347 corpus weight
What this shows « créatures » 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 | créatures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.a.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « créatures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around créatures (IPA \kʁe.a.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,650 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de créature.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for créatures, with forms such as "ccréatures", "craétures", and "creatures". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cratères", "créateurs", "créatives", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is créatures, spelled C-R-É-A-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de créature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how créatures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le calmar géant existe réellement, mais c’est l’une des créatures de la mer les moins connues.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccréatures
- craétures
- creatures
- crréatures
- créatrues
- créattures
- créatuers
- créaturess
- créaturres
- créaturse
- créautres
- crétaures
- cératures
- rcéatures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of créatures - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).