crim
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,259
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crim is aFrenchnoun. It means: Criminel. Pronounced \kɹɪm\. Often confused with cru and CRS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɹɪm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crim is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɹɪm\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,259 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Criminel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for crim, with forms such as "ccrim", "cirm", and "crimm". 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", "cum", 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 crim, spelled C-R-I-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Criminel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrim,cirm,crimm,crmi,crrim,rcim
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crim
Misspelling Variants of "crim"
Frequency rank: #37,259 in French
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