crédule
\kʁe.dyl\
The verdict
“crédule” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,261
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui croit trop facilement ce qu’on lui dit, prompt à croire quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-credule · crédule · French
crédule · rank #42,261 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,261
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crucifier
Nearest frequency peer: crucifier (-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 « crédule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crin
crin
57,744 corpus weight
- crucifier
crucifier
57,741 corpus weight
- crédule
crédule
57,740 corpus weight
- crédulité
crédulité
57,739 corpus weight
- CSV
CSV
57,738 corpus weight
- Cte
Cte
57,737 corpus weight
What this shows « crédule » 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 | crédule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.dyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crédule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around crédule (IPA \kʁe.dyl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,261 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui croit trop facilement ce qu’on lui dit, prompt à croire quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for crédule, with forms such as "ccrédule", "crdéule", and "credule". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "creusé", "créole", "crédules", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crédule, spelled C-R-É-D-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui croit trop facilement ce qu’on lui dit, prompt à croire quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crédule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esprit crédule, un public, une foule crédule.
Il est trop crédule aux propos des charlatans.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrédule
- crdéule
- credule
- crrédule
- créddule
- crédlue
- créduel
- crédulle
- créudle
- cérdule
- rcédule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crédule - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).