crescent
\ˈkɹɛz.ənt\
The verdict
“crescent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,440
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crescent · crescent · French
crescent · rank #48,440 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,440
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cravache
Nearest frequency peer: cravache (-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 « crescent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- COV
COV
51,564 corpus weight
- craintif
craintif
51,563 corpus weight
- cravache
cravache
51,562 corpus weight
- crescent
crescent
51,561 corpus weight
- CrossFit
CrossFit
51,560 corpus weight
- crudités
crudités
51,559 corpus weight
What this shows « crescent » 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 | crescent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɹɛz.ənt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crescent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around crescent (IPA \ˈkɹɛz.ənt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,440 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for crescent, with forms such as "ccrescent", "cerscent", and "crecsent". 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, "crèvent", "creusent", "créent", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crescent, spelled C-R-E-S-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Croissant.
- 2Croissant.
- 3Voie en forme de croissant, en général bordée de bâtiments.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrescent
- cerscent
- crecsent
- cresccent
- crescennt
- crescentt
- crescetn
- crescnet
- cresecnt
- cresscent
- crrescent
- crsecent
- rcescent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crescent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crescent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).