creuset
\kʁø.zɛ\
The verdict
“creuset” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,341
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient de terre réfractaire ou de métal, qui sert à faire fondre certaines substances, et principalement les métaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-creuset · creuset · French
creuset · rank #36,341 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,341
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crade
Nearest frequency peer: crade (-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 « creuset »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couronnées
couronnées
63,663 corpus weight
- couvrira
couvrira
63,662 corpus weight
- crade
crade
63,661 corpus weight
- creuset
creuset
63,660 corpus weight
- crucifixion
crucifixion
63,659 corpus weight
- crânienne
crânienne
63,658 corpus weight
What this shows « creuset » 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 | creuset |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁø.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « creuset »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around creuset (IPA \kʁø.zɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,341 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 creuset, with forms such as "ccreuset", "ceruset", and "cresuet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "creusot", "crest", "creusé", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is creuset, spelled C-R-E-U-S-E-T.
Definition
- 1Récipient de terre réfractaire ou de métal, qui sert à faire fondre certaines substances, et principalement les métaux.
- 2Source ; origine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how creuset appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était chauffé dans un creuset en porcelaine émaillée, au milieu d’une masse de fer porphyrisé qui le préservait de l’oxydation.
Ces minerais ont encore un inconvénient grave : à cause de leur finesse, […], ils traversent les charges du haut-fourneau et arrivent jusqu'au creuset sans être réduits.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreuset
- ceruset
- cresuet
- creuest
- creusett
- creusset
- creuste
- crreuset
- crueset
- rceuset
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creuset - 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
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