créer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#895
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
créer is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer quelque chose du néant, faire de rien quelque chose. Pronounced \kʁe.e\. It ranks #895 in French word frequency. Often confused with Crie and crue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | créer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁe.e\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for créer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁe.e\. Corpus data places it at rank #895 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for créer, with forms such as "ccréer", "creer", and "creér". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Crie", "crue", "crew", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is créer, spelled C-R-É-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tirer quelque chose du néant, faire de rien quelque chose.
- 2Donner l’existence à quelque chose qui n’existait pas encore, éventuellement à partir d'autres éléments.
- 3Fonder, instituer, élire.
- 4Produire ; faire naître ; susciter.
- 5Imaginer ; inventer.
- 6Faire subir, donner, provoquer.
- 7Jouer un rôle qui n'avait jamais été joué auparavant.
- 8Représenter, mettre en scène, une œuvre théâtrale ou musicale qui n'avait jamais été représentée auparavant.
- 9Créer un genre, une espèce, etc. : Établir un nouveau genre, une nouvelle espèce, etc., pour y ranger des êtres qu’on ne peut rapporter à aucun genre, à aucune espèce connue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccréer,creer,creér,crréer,créerr,crére,cérer,rcéer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for créer
Misspelling Variants of "créer"
Frequency rank: #895 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: