crise
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,109
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Changement en bien ou en mal qui survient dans le cours d’une maladie et s’annonce par quelques phénomènes particuliers, comme une excrétion abondante, une hémorragie considérable, des sueurs, un d... Pronounced \kʁiz\. It ranks #1,109 in French word frequency. Often confused with CRS and crue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁiz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crise is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,109 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for crise, with forms such as "ccrise", "cirse", and "crrise". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRS", "crue", "crus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crise, spelled C-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Changement en bien ou en mal qui survient dans le cours d’une maladie et s’annonce par quelques phénomènes particuliers, comme une excrétion abondante, une hémorragie considérable, des sueurs, un dépôt dans les urines, etc.
- 2Très intense douleur osseuse. → voir crise de goutte
- 3Moment périlleux et décisif.
- 4Trouble dans le fonctionnement normal de l’activité économique.
- 5Trouble dans le fonctionnement normal d’un régime politique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrise,cirse,crrise,crsie,rcise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crise
Misspelling Variants of "crise"
Frequency rank: #1,109 in French
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Nearby French words
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