Crimée

\kʁi.me\

/\kʁi.me\/ name

The verdict

“Crimée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,851
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Péninsule dans la mer Noire au sud de l’Ukraine et à l’ouest de la région du Kouban en Russie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crimee · Crimée · French

Crimée · rank #10,851 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,851
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH coéquipier

Nearest frequency peer: coéquipier (-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 « Crimée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Crimée » 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).

Crimée vs crise
50% similar
Crimée vs crimes
50% similar
Crimée vs crises
33% similar

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

Key facts for Crimée
PropertyValue
HeadwordCrimée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\kʁi.me\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,851
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Crimée »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Criméese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « coéquipier » (#10,850), « croyants » (#10,852), « coutumes » (#10,849). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Crimée » est au #10,851. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Crimée (IPA \kʁi.me\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Péninsule dans la mer Noire au sud de l’Ukraine et à l’ouest de la région du Kouban en Russie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Crimée, with forms such as "ccrimée", "cirmée", and "crimee". 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, "crise", "crimes", "crises", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Crimée, spelled C-R-I-M-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Péninsule dans la mer Noire au sud de l’Ukraine et à l’ouest de la région du Kouban en Russie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Pendant la guerre de Crimée (1853-1856), une violente tempête, occasionnant en mer Noire un naufrage catastrophique de dizaines de bâtiments, amena le ministre de la Guerre à confier l’étude de la météo à l’astronome Urbain Le Verrier.
  2. Je lui tends toutes sortes de petits paquets, d’objets, de jouets posés par terre auprès de l’arbre, des noix dorées, de toutes petites pommes rouges de Crimée, et elle les attache aux branches par des faveurs rouges, des fils d’or et d’argent…

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccrimée
  • cirmée
  • crimee
  • crimeé
  • crimmée
  • criéme
  • crmiée
  • crrimée
  • rcimée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Crimée - 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.

ccrimée1cirmée2crimee1crimeé2crimmée1criéme2crmiée2crrimée1
Edit distance from "Crimée"

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 "Crimée"?
"Crimée" is spelled C-R-I-M-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.me\.
What does "Crimée" mean?
As a proper noun, "Crimée" means: Péninsule dans la mer Noire au sud de l’Ukraine et à l’ouest de la région du Kouban en Russie.
What words are commonly confused with "Crimée"?
"Crimée" is commonly confused with "crise", "crimes", "crises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Crimée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Crimée" is \kʁi.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Crimée" come from?
"Crimée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list