cria
\kʁi.ja\
The verdict
“cria” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,731
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit des camélidés d’Amérique : lama, alpaga, vigogne ou guanaco.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cria · cria · French
cria · rank #39,731 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,731
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CPAM
Nearest frequency peer: CPAM (-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 « cria »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cousue
cousue
60,273 corpus weight
- coworking
coworking
60,272 corpus weight
- CPAM
CPAM
60,271 corpus weight
- cria
cria
60,270 corpus weight
- cristallisa…
cristallisation
60,269 corpus weight
- croft
croft
60,268 corpus weight
What this shows « cria » 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 | cria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cria »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cria (IPA \kʁi.ja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,731 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit des camélidés d’Amérique : lama, alpaga, vigogne ou guanaco.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cria, with forms such as "ccria", "cira", and "crai". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "CRS", "CSA", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is cria, spelled C-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Petit des camélidés d’Amérique : lama, alpaga, vigogne ou guanaco.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très souvent à 6 mois la mère a déjà commencé à rejeter son cria et à l’empêcher de téter, donc la séparation est plus facilement acceptée par l’un comme par l’autre.
Car même si les mères peuvent être particulièrement douces et compréhensives chez les lamas, il n’en reste pas moins que ce cria, c’est le leur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccria
- cira
- crai
- crria
- rcia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cria - 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 "cria", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).