critérium
\kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“critérium” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,965
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Preuve qu’une chose est telle qu’elle doit être, critère.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | critérium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “critérium” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around critérium (IPA \kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,965 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Preuve qu’une chose est telle qu’elle doit être, critère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for critérium, with forms such as "ccritérium", "cirtérium", and "criterium". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is critérium, spelled C-R-I-T-É-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Preuve qu’une chose est telle qu’elle doit être, critère.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccritérium
- cirtérium
- criterium
- critréium
- crittérium
- critéirum
- critérimu
- critériumm
- critérrium
- critéruim
- criétrium
- crritérium
- crtiérium
- rcitérium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of critérium - 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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Using “critérium”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-I-T-É-R-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.