croce
The verdict
“croce” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,404
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crosse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croce · croce · French
croce · rank #44,404 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,404
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criminalisati…
Nearest frequency peer: criminalisation (-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 « croce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coussinets
coussinets
55,600 corpus weight
- coéquipière
coéquipière
55,599 corpus weight
- criminalisa…
criminalisation
55,598 corpus weight
- croce
croce
55,597 corpus weight
- cryptograph…
cryptographie
55,596 corpus weight
- Cummings
Cummings
55,595 corpus weight
What this shows « croce » 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 | croce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around croce, anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,404 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Crosse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for croce, with forms such as "ccroce", "corce", and "crcoe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crue", "crop", "Cros", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 croce, spelled C-R-O-C-E.
Definition
- 1Crosse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’escu noir as croces de fer
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroce
- corce
- crcoe
- crocce
- croec
- crroce
- rcoce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croce - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).