crétin
\kʁe.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“crétin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,606
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est affecté de crétinisme ou, par extension, de myxœdème congénital.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cretin · crétin · French
crétin · rank #15,606 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,606
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH demandaient
Nearest frequency peer: demandaient (+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 « crétin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coopérer
coopérer
84,399 corpus weight
- Corinne
Corinne
84,397 corpus weight
- crétin
crétin
84,395 corpus weight
- demandaient
demandaient
84,394 corpus weight
- dev
dev
84,393 corpus weight
- dunes
dunes
84,392 corpus weight
What this shows « crétin » 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 | crétin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crétin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around crétin (IPA \kʁe.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,606 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for crétin, with forms such as "ccrétin", "cretin", and "crrétin". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "crin", "crétins", "crête", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crétin, spelled C-R-É-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est affecté de crétinisme ou, par extension, de myxœdème congénital.
- 2Idiot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crétin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cinq heures et demie, nous traversions le bourg de Martigny, où je ne vis rien de remarquable que trois ou quatre crétins, qui, assis devant la porte de la maison paternelle, végétaient stupidement au soleil levant.
Le bas Valais, la partie supérieure du Val d’Aoste en Piémont, la Maurienne et quelques vallées du Faucigny, sont les points des Alpes où l’on rencontre le plus de crétins : on peut dire que là le crétinisme est endémique. Le nom de crétin que l’on donne à ces malheureux est en dans toutes les Alpes sauf dans le Val d’Aoste où on nomme marrons peut être à…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrétin
- cretin
- crrétin
- crtéin
- créitn
- crétinn
- crétni
- créttin
- cértin
- rcétin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crétin - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).