criminels
\kʁi.mi.nɛl\
The verdict
“criminels” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,544
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de criminel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criminels · criminels · French
criminels · rank #5,544 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,544
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croissant
Nearest frequency peer: croissant (+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 « criminels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contribue
contribue
94,460 corpus weight
- contrôles
contrôles
94,459 corpus weight
- criminels
criminels
94,457 corpus weight
- croissant
croissant
94,456 corpus weight
- densité
densité
94,455 corpus weight
- dispute
dispute
94,454 corpus weight
What this shows « criminels » 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 | criminels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁi.mi.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « criminels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around criminels (IPA \kʁi.mi.nɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,544 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de criminel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for criminels, with forms such as "ccriminels", "cirminels", and "criimnels". 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, "criminel", "criminal", "criminelle", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 criminels, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de criminel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how criminels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chef de police démissionnaire de Toronto, Mark Saunders, estime qu’il y a dans sa ville plus de 100 gangs criminels.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccriminels
- cirminels
- criimnels
- crimienls
- criminells
- criminelss
- criminesl
- criminles
- criminnels
- crimminels
- crimniels
- crmiinels
- crriminels
- rciminels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of criminels - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "criminels", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).