croate
\kʁɔ.at\
The verdict
“croate” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,844
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Croates, à la Croatie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croate · croate · French
croate · rank #15,844 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,844
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craignait
Nearest frequency peer: craignait (-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 « croate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrefaçon
contrefaçon
84,161 corpus weight
- convaincant
convaincant
84,160 corpus weight
- convenablem…
convenablement
84,159 corpus weight
- craignait
craignait
84,158 corpus weight
- croate
croate
84,157 corpus weight
- cynique
cynique
84,154 corpus weight
What this shows « croate » 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 | croate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.at\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around croate (IPA \kʁɔ.at\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Croates, à la Croatie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for croate, with forms such as "ccroate", "corate", and "craote". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "croît", "croie", "croft", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is croate, spelled C-R-O-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Croates, à la Croatie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 7 janvier 1636, un recès du Chapitre Cathédral de Liège ordonne aux habitants de Tilff et de Méry de prendre les armes pour garantir la circulation sur l'Ourthe, alors menacée par des pillards croates.
10h30 - Zagreb Les autorités croates ont annoncé avoir rouvert aux vols tout l’espace aérien national, après sa fermeture partielle ou totale durant le week-end.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroate
- corate
- craote
- croaet
- croatte
- crotae
- crroate
- rcoate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croate - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).