Crie

/\kʁi\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,488

in French word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Crie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre féminin de la nation crie. Pronounced \kʁi\. It ranks #6,488 in French word frequency. Often confused with cru and CRS.

Key facts for Crie
PropertyValue
HeadwordCrie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁi\
Letters4
Frequency rank#6,488
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Crie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Crie is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,488 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Membre féminin de la nation crie.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for Crie, with forms such as "ccrie", "crei", and "crrie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Crie, spelled C-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Membre féminin de la nation crie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccrie,crei,crrie,rcie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Crie

Misspelling Variants of "Crie"

ccrie5crei4crrie5rcie4
Misspelling Variants of "Crie"

Frequency rank: #6,488 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Crie"?
"Crie" is spelled C-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi\.
What does "Crie" mean?
As a noun, "Crie" means: Membre féminin de la nation crie.
What words are commonly confused with "Crie"?
"Crie" is commonly confused with "cru", "CRS", "cry". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Crie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Crie" is \kʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Crie" come from?
"Crie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.