crèches
\kʁɛʃ\
The verdict
“crèches” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,686
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de crèche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creches · crèches · French
crèches · rank #20,686 · 12 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,686
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crew
Nearest frequency peer: crew (-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 « crèches »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- creative
creative
79,318 corpus weight
- creuses
creuses
79,317 corpus weight
- crew
crew
79,316 corpus weight
- crèches
crèches
79,315 corpus weight
- cyclables
cyclables
79,313 corpus weight
- Cynthia
Cynthia
79,312 corpus weight
What this shows « crèches » 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 | crèches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crèches »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around crèches (IPA \kʁɛʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,686 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de crèche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for crèches, with forms such as "ccrèches", "crcèhes", and "creches". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "créés", "créées", "crêpes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 crèches, spelled C-R-È-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de crèche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crèches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une recherche-action, conduite dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis durant deux ans par deux sociologues, a impliqué une soixantaine d’auxiliaires de puériculture volontaires venues d’une quinzaine de crèches départementales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrèches
- crcèhes
- creches
- crrèches
- crècches
- crècehs
- crèchess
- crèchhes
- crèchse
- crèhces
- cèrches
- rcèches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crèches - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crèches", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).