crique

\kʁik\

/\kʁik\/ noun

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The verdict

“crique” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,361
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite baie, partie du rivage qui forme dans les terres un enfoncement où de petits bateaux peuvent se mettre à l’abri.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crique · crique · French

crique · rank #32,361 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,361
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH couve

Nearest frequency peer: couve (-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 « crique »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « crique » 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).

crique vs crue
67% similar
crique vs crise
67% similar
crique vs croque
83% similar

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

Key facts for crique
PropertyValue
Headwordcrique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁik\
Letters6
Frequency rank#32,361
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crique »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.criquese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « couve » (#32,360), « cosplay » (#32,359), « Ctrl » (#32,363). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crique » est au #32,361. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around crique (IPA \kʁik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,361 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for crique, with forms such as "ccrique", "criqeu", and "criqque". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crue", "crise", "croque", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 crique, spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite baie, partie du rivage qui forme dans les terres un enfoncement où de petits bateaux peuvent se mettre à l’abri.
  2. 2
    Fissure dans une pièce métallique ― interne (invisible) ou apparente (alors dite débouchante) ― souvent causée par un défaut de fabrication et à une variation de température.
  3. 3
    Petite rivière qui parcourt forêts et savanes et se jette dans un fleuve.
  4. 4
    Recette traditionnelle, de l'Ardèche et de la Drôme, de galette de pommes de terre revenues à la poêle.
  5. 5
    Fossé creusé autour des places fortes dans le but d’empêcher l'ennemi d'y faire des tranchées.
  6. 6
    Dent

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De ce côté, le rivage, capricieusement festonné, creusé de criques et d'anses, hérissé de caps aigus et de promontoires abrupts, allait se perdre dans ce confus enchevêtrement de détroits, de pertuis, de passes, qui donne aux cartes des continents polaires un si bizarre aspect.
  2. […] des centaines d’embarcations affluent de tous côtés, forment un immense demi-cercle autour des cétacés et les chassent vers quelque crique, où ils sont promptement massacrés.

Synonyms

calanquecrique saisonnièrerâpée

This word in other languages

cove(English)caleta(Español)Bucht(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccrique
  • criqeu
  • criqque
  • criuqe
  • crqiue
  • crrique
  • rcique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccrique1criqeu2criqque1criuqe2crqiue2crrique1rcique2
Edit distance from "crique"

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 "crique"?
"crique" is spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁik\.
What does "crique" mean?
As a noun, "crique" means: Petite baie, partie du rivage qui forme dans les terres un enfoncement où de petits bateaux peuvent se mettre à l’abri.
What words are commonly confused with "crique"?
"crique" is commonly confused with "crue", "crise", "croque". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crique" is \kʁik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crique" come from?
"crique" 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 "crique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chacal#32,336calque#32,328Elijah#32,394Emilia#32,395

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Ctrl7 variantscales7 variantsfalco7 variantsbougre7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list