cricket

\kʁi.kɛt\

/\kʁi.kɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“cricket” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,821
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs essaient à leur tour de frapper une balle afin de courir entre les guichets et marquer des points. Il y a toujours une équipe qui frappe et une équipe qui défend.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cricket · cricket · French

cricket · rank #23,821 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,821
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH CQFD

Nearest frequency peer: CQFD (-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 « cricket »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cricket » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cricket vs crochet
71% similar
cricket vs chicken
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cricket
PropertyValue
Headwordcricket
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁi.kɛt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,821
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cricket »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cricketse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « CQFD » (#23,820), « CPU » (#23,819), « couscous » (#23,818). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cricket » est au #23,821. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around cricket (IPA \kʁi.kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,821 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs essaient à leur tour de frapper une balle afin de courir entre les guichets et marquer des points. Il y a toujours une équipe qui frappe et une équipe qui défend.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cricket, with forms such as "ccricket", "circket", and "crciket". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "crochet", "chicken", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cricket, spelled C-R-I-C-K-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs essaient à leur tour de frapper une balle afin de courir entre les guichets et marquer des points. Il y a toujours une équipe qui frappe et une équipe qui défend.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cricket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’ambassadeur britannique, troisième duc de Dorset et coureur de jupons notoire, décide de remonter le moral des Français en leur faisant connaître le cricket au travers d’un match d’exhibition organisé sur les Champs-Élysées.

This word in other languages

cricket(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccricket
  • circket
  • crciket
  • criccket
  • cricekt
  • crickett
  • crickket
  • crickte
  • crikcet
  • crricket
  • rcicket

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cricket - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccricket1circket2crciket2criccket1cricekt2crickett1crickket1crickte2
Edit distance from "cricket"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cricket"?
"cricket" is spelled C-R-I-C-K-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.kɛt\.
What does "cricket" mean?
As a noun, "cricket" means: Sport où deux équipes de onze joueurs essaient à leur tour de frapper une balle afin de courir entre les guichets et marquer des points. Il y a toujours une équipe qui frappe et une équipe qui défend.
What words are commonly confused with "cricket"?
"cricket" is commonly confused with "crochet", "chicken". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cricket"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cricket" is \kʁi.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cricket" come from?
"cricket" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cricket", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

corrida#23,813derrick#23,829commons#23,806cagoule#23,792

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

couscous11 variantscorrosion11 variantscorrompue11 variantscopilote11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list