crétacé
\kʁe.ta.se\
The verdict
“crétacé” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,716
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est ou qui tient de la nature de la craie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cretace · crétacé · French
crétacé · rank #29,716 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,716
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvrez
Nearest frequency peer: couvrez (-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 « crétacé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contactés
contactés
70,289 corpus weight
- Cotonou
Cotonou
70,288 corpus weight
- couvrez
couvrez
70,286 corpus weight
- crétacé
crétacé
70,285 corpus weight
- côlon
côlon
70,284 corpus weight
- daube
daube
70,281 corpus weight
What this shows « crétacé » 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 | crétacé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁe.ta.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crétacé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around crétacé (IPA \kʁe.ta.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,716 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for crétacé, with forms such as "ccrétacé", "cretace", and "crrétacé". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "crête", "créance", "cétacés", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 crétacé, spelled C-R-É-T-A-C-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est ou qui tient de la nature de la craie.
- 2Qui concerne le Crétacé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crétacé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lieux qui forment le département des Ardennes, considérés géologiquement, sont constitués par le terrain ardoisier au nord, le terrain calcaire jurassique au milieu, le terrain crétacé au midi.
J’ai d’abord démontré, pour les environs de Chambéry, que les calcaires blancs sublithographiques, sur lesquels reposent ces marnes, renfermaient la même faune qu’elles, et, comme les marnes de Berrias étaient alors considérées comme crétacées, j’ai placé le tout dans le crétacé, tout en considérant cet ensemble comme équivalent dans le temps aux marno-ca…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrétacé
- cretace
- crrétacé
- crtéacé
- créatcé
- crétaccé
- crétaéc
- crétcaé
- créttacé
- cértacé
- rcétacé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crétacé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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