crever
\kʁə.ve\
The verdict
“crever” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,805
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’ouvrir par un effort violent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crever · crever · French
crever · rank #6,805 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,805
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courageux
Nearest frequency peer: courageux (-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 « crever »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contemporai…
contemporains
93,199 corpus weight
- contes
contes
93,198 corpus weight
- courageux
courageux
93,197 corpus weight
- crever
crever
93,196 corpus weight
- créateurs
créateurs
93,195 corpus weight
- disaient
disaient
93,193 corpus weight
What this shows « crever » 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 | crever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁə.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crever »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around crever (IPA \kʁə.ve\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for crever, with forms such as "ccrever", "cerver", and "creevr". 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, "crier", "crée", "créer", 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 crever, spelled C-R-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’ouvrir par un effort violent.
- 2Mourir.
- 3Ouvrir, faire éclater par un effort violent.
- 4Rendre malade ; faire presque mourir par un excès de fatigue ou de nourriture.
- 5Tuer.
- 6Illuminer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous traversâmes un large guéret dont les mottes crevaient sous nos pas en poussière rouge ; […].
Maintenant d’ailleurs que le regard se faisait à l'obscurité, on discernait la vitre dépolie du soupirail, vaguement illuminé chaque fois que se ravivait un bec de gaz assez lointain, dont le manchon était sans doute crevé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrever
- cerver
- creevr
- creverr
- crevre
- crevver
- crrever
- crveer
- rcever
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crever - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).