criant
\kʁi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“criant” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,678
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui crie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criant · criant · French
criant · rank #10,678 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,678
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cookies
Nearest frequency peer: cookies (-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 « criant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constituant
constituant
89,326 corpus weight
- contourner
contourner
89,325 corpus weight
- cookies
cookies
89,324 corpus weight
- criant
criant
89,323 corpus weight
- criminalité
criminalité
89,322 corpus weight
- Cs
Cs
89,320 corpus weight
What this shows « criant » 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 | criant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « criant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around criant (IPA \kʁi.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,678 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for criant, with forms such as "ccriant", "cirant", and "criannt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crit", "crin", "crient", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is criant, spelled C-R-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui crie.
- 2Causant une surprise propre à provoquer des cris, souvent d'indignation (syn: scandaleux), mais aussi d'étonnement (syn: surprenant).
- 3Flagrant, évident, qui saute aux yeux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La horde criante des supporters.
— Les abbayes et les monastères, étaient à cette époque, « cavernes de voleurs, lieux de dissolution » ; les abus devenaient tellement criants, les désordres prenaient des proportions si inquiétantes, qu'à tout prix il fallait y mettre un terme; […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccriant
- cirant
- criannt
- criantt
- criatn
- crinat
- crriant
- rciant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of criant - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).