critiqués

\kʁi.ti.ke\

/\kʁi.ti.ke\/ verb

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The verdict

“critiqués” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,200
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de critiquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-critiques · critiqués · French

critiqués · rank #33,200 · 14 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,200
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH creusées

Nearest frequency peer: creusées (-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 « critiqués »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « critiqués » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

critiqués vs critique
78% similar
critiqués vs civiques
67% similar
critiqués vs chimiques
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for critiqués
PropertyValue
Headwordcritiqués
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁi.ti.ke\
Letters9
Frequency rank#33,200
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « critiqués »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.critiquésse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « creusées » (#33,199), « cultural » (#33,201), « CPAS » (#33,198). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « critiqués » est au #33,200. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around critiqués (IPA \kʁi.ti.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,200 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de critiquer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for critiqués, with forms such as "ccritiqués", "cirtiqués", and "criitqués". 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 also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "critique", "civiques", "chimiques", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 critiqués, spelled C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin pluriel de critiquer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccritiqués
  • cirtiqués
  • criitqués
  • critiqqués
  • critiques
  • critiqusé
  • critiquéss
  • critiqéus
  • critiuqés
  • critqiués
  • crittiqués
  • crritiqués
  • crtiiqués
  • rcitiqués

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of critiqués - 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.

ccritiqués1cirtiqués2criitqués2critiqqués1critiques1critiqusé2critiquéss1critiqéus2
Edit distance from "critiqués"

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 "critiqués"?
"critiqués" is spelled C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁi.ti.ke\.
What does "critiqués" mean?
As a verb, "critiqués" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de critiquer.
What words are commonly confused with "critiqués"?
"critiqués" is commonly confused with "critique", "civiques", "chimiques". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "critiqués"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "critiqués" is \kʁi.ti.ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "critiqués" come from?
"critiqués" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

coriandre#33,193coranique#33,190digestifs#33,212disputait#33,213

Similar misspelling depth

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

divination14 variantsdiététique14 variantsdébutante14 variantsenquêtent14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list