criminel
\kʁi.mi.nɛl\
The verdict
“criminel” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,479
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est coupable d’un crime, de crimes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criminel · criminel · French
criminel · rank #4,479 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,479
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crier
Nearest frequency peer: crier (-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 « criminel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constante
constante
95,525 corpus weight
- craint
craint
95,524 corpus weight
- crier
crier
95,523 corpus weight
- criminel
criminel
95,522 corpus weight
- césar
césar
95,521 corpus weight
- danser
danser
95,520 corpus weight
What this shows « criminel » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | criminel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.mi.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « criminel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around criminel (IPA \kʁi.mi.nɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,479 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for criminel, with forms such as "ccriminel", "cirminel", and "criimnel". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "criminels", "criminelle", "criminelles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is criminel, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est coupable d’un crime, de crimes.
- 2Condamnable, illicite.
- 3Qui appartient à une personne criminelle, ou qui conçoit des pensées criminelles.
- 4Qualifie la législation qui concerne les crimes et tout ce qui regarde la procédure qu’on fait contre les personnes accusées de crime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how criminel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ô phrénologues ! L’inéducabilité érigée en principe ? quel inhominalisme ! La sublime créature est éducable, voyante et libre, criminelle ou vertueuse à son choix, responsable.
Quelle main criminelle avait accompli cette sinistre besogne ? Et à qui en voulait l'incendiaire ?
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccriminel
- cirminel
- criimnel
- crimienl
- criminell
- criminle
- criminnel
- crimminel
- crimniel
- crmiinel
- crriminel
- rciminel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of criminel - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).