cristal
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,045
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
cristal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Corps solide homogène composé d’atomes ou de molécules dont l’organisation dans l’espace est une répétition régulière et périodique qui définit la perfection géométrique du cristal isolé. Pronounced \kʁis.tal\. It ranks #7,045 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cristo and crystal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cristal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cristal is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁis.tal\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,045 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cristal, with forms such as "ccristal", "cirstal", and "crisatl". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Cristo", "crystal", "cristaux", 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 cristal, spelled C-R-I-S-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Corps solide homogène composé d’atomes ou de molécules dont l’organisation dans l’espace est une répétition régulière et périodique qui définit la perfection géométrique du cristal isolé.
- 2Cristal de roche, synonyme de quartz transparent, non coloré.
- 3Verre à l’oxyde de plomb, transparent et clair comme le cristal de roche.
- 4Objet fait de cristal naturel ou factice.
- 5Cristaux de soude.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccristal,cirstal,crisatl,crisstal,cristall,cristla,cristtal,critsal,crristal,crsital,rcistal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "cristal"
Frequency rank: #7,045 in French
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