crinière
\kʁi.ɲɛʁ\
The verdict
“crinière” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,122
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble des crins qui garnissent le cou de certains animaux, comme le cheval ou le lion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criniere · crinière · French
crinière · rank #28,122 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,122
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH cream
Nearest frequency peer: cream (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “crinière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Cory
Cory
71,883 corpus weight
- craignaient
craignaient
71,881 corpus weight
- cream
cream
71,880 corpus weight
- crinière
crinière
71,879 corpus weight
- cultivateurs
cultivateurs
71,878 corpus weight
- Cyrano
Cyrano
71,877 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “crinière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | crinière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.ɲɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crinière” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around crinière (IPA \kʁi.ɲɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,122 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for crinière, with forms such as "ccrinière", "cirnière", and "criinère". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "critère", "croisière", "civière", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is crinière, spelled C-R-I-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des crins qui garnissent le cou de certains animaux, comme le cheval ou le lion.
- 2Amas de poils sur certains animaux.
- 3Touffe de crins tombante qui garnit le cimier d’un casque et flotte par-derrière.
- 4Chevelure abondante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crinière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un étalon barbe, pas grand, mais bien formé et bien musclé, un alezan étoile de blanc au front, dont la robe dorée, la queue et la crinière blondes, longues et fournies, reluisent au soleil.
Quelques soies, prothoraciques et des premiers segments tergaux, sont semi-érigées, sans pour autant que l’on puise parler de “crinière”.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrinière
- cirnière
- criinère
- criniere
- crinirèe
- crinièer
- crinièrre
- crinnière
- crinèire
- crniière
- crrinière
- rcinière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crinière - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crinière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.