creuser
\kʁø.ze\
The verdict
“creuser” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,676
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un trou, un orifice, un canal, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creuser · creuser · French
creuser · rank #7,676 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,676
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coureurs
Nearest frequency peer: coureurs (-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 « creuser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consultant
consultant
92,328 corpus weight
- contraste
contraste
92,327 corpus weight
- coureurs
coureurs
92,326 corpus weight
- creuser
creuser
92,325 corpus weight
- dangereuses
dangereuses
92,324 corpus weight
- Dave
Dave
92,323 corpus weight
What this shows « creuser » 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 | creuser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁø.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « creuser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around creuser (IPA \kʁø.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,676 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for creuser, with forms such as "ccreuser", "ceruser", and "cresuer". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "crever", "croiser", "creuses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is creuser, spelled C-R-E-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire un trou, un orifice, un canal, etc.
- 2Faire un creux, un défaut de planéité.
- 3Approfondir, faire une recherche plus précise sur un sujet particulier après une première approche.
- 4Évider.
- 5Donner faim.
- 6Devenir creux.
- 7Réfléchir intensément.
- 8Creuser sa tombe, courir à sa perte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how creuser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour les autres, il creusait des fossés, fagottait, écorçait des arbres ou les abattait.
Son pied gauche, dont l’orteil rongeait la chaussette dix fois raccommodée, déchiquetant les mailles et creusant sa trouée, le faisait souffrir cruellement.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreuser
- ceruser
- cresuer
- creuesr
- creuserr
- creusre
- creusser
- crreuser
- crueser
- rceuser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creuser - 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 "creuser", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).