créatures

\kʁe.a.tyʁ\

/\kʁe.a.tyʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « créatures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

créatures vs cratères
78% similar
créatures vs créateurs
78% similar
créatures vs créatives
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for créatures
PropertyValue
Headwordcréatures
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁe.a.tyʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,650
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « créatures »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).créaturesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cri » (#5,649), « craindre » (#5,648), « deuil » (#5,652). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « créatures » est au #5,650. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de créature.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how créatures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

ccréatures1craétures2creatures1crréatures1créatrues2créattures1créatuers2créaturess1
Edit distance from "créatures"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "créatures"?
"créatures" is spelled C-R-É-A-T-U-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁe.a.tyʁ\.
What does "créatures" mean?
As a noun, "créatures" means: Pluriel de créature.
What words are commonly confused with "créatures"?
"créatures" is commonly confused with "cratères", "créateurs", "créatives". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "créatures"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "créatures" is \kʁe.a.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "créatures" come from?
"créatures" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "créatures", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list