crêpe
\kʁɛp\
The verdict
“crêpe” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,798
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe claire, légère et comme frisée, faite de laine fine ou de soie crue et gommée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepe · crêpe · French
crêpe · rank #19,798 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,798
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH creek
Nearest frequency peer: creek (-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 « crêpe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courait
courait
80,206 corpus weight
- courtiers
courtiers
80,205 corpus weight
- creek
creek
80,204 corpus weight
- crêpe
crêpe
80,203 corpus weight
- dani
dani
80,202 corpus weight
- dea
dea
80,200 corpus weight
What this shows « crêpe » 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 | crêpe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛp\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crêpe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crêpe (IPA \kʁɛp\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,798 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crêpe, with forms such as "ccrêpe", "crepe", and "crpêe". 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, "Crie", "crue", "crew", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crêpe, spelled C-R-Ê-P-E.
Definition
- 1Étoffe claire, légère et comme frisée, faite de laine fine ou de soie crue et gommée.
- 2Symbole consistant en un crêpe noir au chapeau, au bras ou à l’épée, porté en signe de deuil.
- 3Cheveux nattés et frisés par le bout.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crêpe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils feront aussi des crêpes unis et gros crêpes, de la même façon et qualité que ceux qui viennent de Boulogne,
Voiles, crêpes, habits, lugubres ornements.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrêpe
- crepe
- crpêe
- crrêpe
- crêep
- crêppe
- cêrpe
- rcêpe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crêpe - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crêpe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).