criaient
\kʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“criaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,549. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,549
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de crier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criaient · criaient · French
criaient · rank #30,549 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,549
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craignais
Nearest frequency peer: craignais (-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 « criaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courge
courge
69,455 corpus weight
- craignais
craignais
69,453 corpus weight
- criaient
criaient
69,452 corpus weight
- cristalline
cristalline
69,451 corpus weight
- créatives
créatives
69,450 corpus weight
- csi
csi
69,449 corpus weight
What this shows « criaient » 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 | criaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « criaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around criaient (IPA \kʁi.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,549 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de crier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for criaient, with forms such as "ccriaient", "ciraient", and "craiient". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "criant", "crient", "criait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 criaient, spelled C-R-I-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de crier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how criaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À peine l’indépendance de l’Amérique du Nord fut-elle proclamée, la paix conclue avec l’ancienne métropole, que ces hommes qui criaient si haut à la tyrannie, à l’oppression, qui réclamaient contre la violation du droit des gens, dont, disaient-ils, ils étaient victimes, organisèrent avec cet implacable sang-froid qu’ils tiennent de leur origine une chass…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccriaient
- ciraient
- craiient
- criaeint
- criaiennt
- criaientt
- criaietn
- criainet
- criiaent
- crriaient
- rciaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of criaient - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).