critérium

\kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\

/\kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\/ noun

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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
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Preuve qu’une chose est telle qu’elle doit être, critère.

Corpus desk

Index FR-criterium · critérium · French

critérium · rank #30,965 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,965
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH coyotes

Nearest frequency peer: coyotes (-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 « critérium »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « critérium » 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
Key facts for critérium
PropertyValue
Headwordcritérium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\
Letters9
Frequency rank#30,965
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « critérium »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).critériumse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « coyotes » (#30,964), « croises » (#30,966), « cousu » (#30,963). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « critérium » est au #30,965. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around critérium (IPA \kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,965 among 8,609 “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

  1. 1
    Preuve qu’une chose est telle qu’elle doit être, critère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La faculté de comprendre ou l’impossibilité de comprendre, dit fort judicieusement M. Mill, ne peut, dans aucun cas, être considérée comme un critérium de Vérité axiomatique.
  2. Le trompement, ou dérobement, est l'une des plus grosses difficultés de l'escrime ; c'est presque le critérium du parfait escrimeur.

Synonyms

critère

This word in other languages

criterion(English)

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.

ccritérium1cirtérium2criterium1critréium2crittérium1critéirum2critérimu2critériumm1
Edit distance from "critérium"

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 "critérium"?
"critérium" is spelled C-R-I-T-É-R-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\.
What does "critérium" mean?
As a noun, "critérium" means: Preuve qu’une chose est telle qu’elle doit être, critère.
What are common misspellings of "critérium"?
Common misspellings include "ccritérium", "cirtérium", "criterium", "critréium", "crittérium". The correct spelling is "critérium".
How do you pronounce "critérium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "critérium" is \kʁi.te.ʁjɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "critérium" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "critérium", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

découvres14 variantsdédommager14 variantsdélirante14 variantsBourbonnais14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list