créole
\kʁe.ɔl\
The verdict
“créole” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,118
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Originellement, personne de famille européenne, née dans une des anciennes colonies des régions tropicales d'Amérique et de l'océan Indien, et plus particulièrement des Antilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creole · créole · French
créole · rank #15,118 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,118
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crues
Nearest frequency peer: crues (-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 « créole »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conçues
conçues
84,886 corpus weight
- crevettes
crevettes
84,885 corpus weight
- crues
crues
84,884 corpus weight
- créole
créole
84,883 corpus weight
- D2
D2
84,882 corpus weight
- dawn
dawn
84,880 corpus weight
What this shows « créole » 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 | créole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.ɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « créole »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around créole (IPA \kʁe.ɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,118 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for créole, with forms such as "ccréole", "creole", and "croéle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crête", "crevé", "crêpe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 créole, spelled C-R-É-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Originellement, personne de famille européenne, née dans une des anciennes colonies des régions tropicales d'Amérique et de l'océan Indien, et plus particulièrement des Antilles.
- 2Toute personne née dans ces régions quelle que soit son ascendance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how créole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne peut nier que les créoles portaient quelque envie aux immenses richesses des Espagnols, qui, par la supériorité de leurs connaissances et le genre de vie aristocratique qu’ils avaient menée jusqu’alors, s’étaient attiré l’inimitié des classes inférieures.
Après le dîner, les dames restèrent assises autour de la table dans un doux far-niente, s'entretenant, à la mode des créoles oisives, de tous les petits événements arrivés dans le pays.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccréole
- creole
- croéle
- crréole
- créloe
- créoel
- créolle
- cérole
- rcéole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of créole - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).