crible
\kʁibl\
The verdict
“crible” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,390
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument percé d’un grand nombre de trous qui sert à trier des objets de grosseur ou de qualité inégales, en laissant passer les uns et en repoussant les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crible · crible · French
crible · rank #27,390 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,390
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coutumier
Nearest frequency peer: coutumier (-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 « crible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cougars
cougars
72,614 corpus weight
- courbet
courbet
72,613 corpus weight
- coutumier
coutumier
72,612 corpus weight
- crible
crible
72,611 corpus weight
- cruche
cruche
72,610 corpus weight
- csc
csc
72,609 corpus weight
What this shows « crible » 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 | crible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁibl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around crible (IPA \kʁibl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,390 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for crible, with forms such as "ccrible", "cirble", and "crbile". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Crie", "crise", "crime", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crible, spelled C-R-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument percé d’un grand nombre de trous qui sert à trier des objets de grosseur ou de qualité inégales, en laissant passer les uns et en repoussant les autres.
- 2Moyen d'épuration, de tri, de sélection.
- 3Procédé permettant de trouver par élimination tous les entiers naturels premiers inférieurs à un certain nombre donné N.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bouchard alla chercher de l’avoine dans un crible et arrêta le cheval ; mais Lucien eut toute la peine du monde à le monter, puis à le maîtriser.
Au lieu de nettoyer les graines ébossées, G. Duval a imaginé d'agir sur la bourre en intercalant entre l’ébourreur et l’ébosseur un crible tronconique dont la surface latérale est garnie de feuilles de zinc perforées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrible
- cirble
- crbile
- cribble
- cribel
- criblle
- crilbe
- crrible
- rcible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crible - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).