Crie
\kʁi\
The verdict
“Crie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,488) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,488
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre féminin de la nation crie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crie · Crie · French
Crie · rank #6,488 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,488
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couché
Nearest frequency peer: couché (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Crie »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- confortable
confortable
93,516 corpus weight
- coordonnées
coordonnées
93,515 corpus weight
- couché
couché
93,514 corpus weight
- Crie
Crie
93,513 corpus weight
- créés
créés
93,512 corpus weight
- Davis
Davis
93,510 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Crie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Crie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Crie »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Crie is neighbouring look-alikes ("cru", "CRS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kʁi\. Frequency #6,488 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Membre féminin de la nation crie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Crie, with forms such as "ccrie", "crei", and "crrie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "CRS", "cry", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Crie, spelled C-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Membre féminin de la nation crie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrie
- crei
- crrie
- rcie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Crie - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).