creusé
\kʁø.ze\
The verdict
“creusé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,749. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,749
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (En parlant du visage ou de parties du visage) Empreint de creux, émacié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creuse · creusé · French
creusé · rank #11,749 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,749
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CR
Nearest frequency peer: CR (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “creusé”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- couvrant
couvrant
88,255 corpus weight
- couvrent
couvrent
88,254 corpus weight
- CR
CR
88,253 corpus weight
- creusé
creusé
88,252 corpus weight
- croyons
croyons
88,251 corpus weight
- créatrice
créatrice
88,250 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “creusé” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | creusé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁø.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “creusé” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around creusé (IPA \kʁø.ze\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,749 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(En parlant du visage ou de parties du visage) Empreint de creux, émacié.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for creusé, with forms such as "ccreusé", "cerusé", and "cresué". 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, "crue", "crus", "crise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is creusé, spelled C-R-E-U-S-É.
Definition
- 1(En parlant du visage ou de parties du visage) Empreint de creux, émacié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how creusé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’officier est grand et élancé, cheveux très blonds, teint hâlé, visage amaigri, des cernes et les traits creusés de quelqu’un qui a peu dormi et beaucoup enduré, cependant impéccablement rasé, Maman s’en souvenait, ça l’avait frappée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreusé
- cerusé
- cresué
- creuse
- creussé
- creués
- crreusé
- cruesé
- rceusé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creusé - 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 "creusé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "creusé". Here's where to go from here.
- "creusé" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "crue". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #11,749 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.