crépuscule
\kʁe.pys.kyl\
The verdict
“crépuscule” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,439
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lumière incertaine ou faible qui reste après le coucher de soleil jusqu’à ce que la nuit soit entièrement tombée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crepuscule · crépuscule · French
crépuscule · rank #14,439 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,439
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crient
Nearest frequency peer: crient (-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 « crépuscule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coûtera
coûtera
85,564 corpus weight
- crient
crient
85,563 corpus weight
- crépuscule
crépuscule
85,562 corpus weight
- curieusement
curieusement
85,561 corpus weight
- cylindre
cylindre
85,560 corpus weight
- dauphins
dauphins
85,559 corpus weight
What this shows « crépuscule » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crépuscule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.pys.kyl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crépuscule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around crépuscule (IPA \kʁe.pys.kyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,439 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for crépuscule, with forms such as "ccrépuscule", "crepuscule", and "crpéuscule". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is crépuscule, spelled C-R-É-P-U-S-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Lumière incertaine ou faible qui reste après le coucher de soleil jusqu’à ce que la nuit soit entièrement tombée.
- 2Lumière qui précède le lever du soleil et qu’on appelle plus ordinairement aube ou aurore.
- 3Ce qui décline, ce qui est près de disparaître.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crépuscule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était huit heures. En cette saison, le crépuscule jette alors ses dernières lueurs.
Dans ces régions le crépuscule n’existe pas ; dès que le soleil a disparu, la nuit est complète.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrépuscule
- crepuscule
- crpéuscule
- crrépuscule
- créppuscule
- crépsucule
- crépucsule
- crépusccule
- crépusclue
- crépuscuel
- crépusculle
- crépusscule
- crépusucle
- créupscule
- cérpuscule
- rcépuscule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crépuscule - 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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