creusement
\kʁøz.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“creusement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,769
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de creuser ; résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creusement · creusement · French
creusement · rank #32,769 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,769
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crit
Nearest frequency peer: crit (+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 « creusement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Corsica
Corsica
67,236 corpus weight
- courgette
courgette
67,235 corpus weight
- cravates
cravates
67,234 corpus weight
- creusement
creusement
67,232 corpus weight
- crit
crit
67,231 corpus weight
- créoles
créoles
67,230 corpus weight
What this shows « creusement » 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 | creusement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁøz.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « creusement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around creusement (IPA \kʁøz.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,769 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for creusement, with forms such as "ccreusement", "cerusement", and "cresuement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "creusent", "croisement", "crissement", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is creusement, spelled C-R-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de creuser ; résultat de cette action.
- 2Alvéolisation caractérisée par la formation d’une seule alvéole affectant la surface de la pierre à partir de ses arêtes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how creusement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nuit vint. Le creusement ne devait pas être suspendu.
Habituellement les terrains mouilleux qu'on veut planter sont assainis au préalable et le creusement des fossés de drainage sert à faire des buttes ou des remblais.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreusement
- cerusement
- cresuement
- creuesment
- creuseemnt
- creusemennt
- creusementt
- creusemetn
- creusemment
- creusemnet
- creusmeent
- creussement
- crreusement
- cruesement
- rceusement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creusement - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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