cristaux
\kʁis.to\
The verdict
“cristaux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,135
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cristal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cristaux · cristaux · French
cristaux · rank #10,135 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,135
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CP
Nearest frequency peer: CP (-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 « cristaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courent
courent
89,868 corpus weight
- CP
CP
89,867 corpus weight
- cristaux
cristaux
89,866 corpus weight
- céramique
céramique
89,865 corpus weight
- cérébrale
cérébrale
89,864 corpus weight
- demanda
demanda
89,863 corpus weight
What this shows « cristaux » 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 | cristaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cristaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cristaux (IPA \kʁis.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,135 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cristal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cristaux, with forms such as "ccristaux", "cirstaux", and "crisatux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Cristo", "cristal", "ciseaux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cristaux, spelled C-R-I-S-T-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cristal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cristaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’utilisation des cristaux de soude et du bleu, l’usage de plantes ou de produits destinés à parfumer le linge avant même de le « lavander » à l’intérieur des armoires, assurent, au fil des décennies, une plus grande blancheur et une odeur plus suave.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccristaux
- cirstaux
- crisatux
- crisstaux
- cristauxx
- cristaxu
- cristtaux
- cristuax
- critsaux
- crristaux
- crsitaux
- rcistaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cristaux - 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.
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 "cristaux", 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).