croche

\kʁɔʃ\

/\kʁɔʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“croche” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,046. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,046
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Note de musique qui vaut, pour la durée, le quart d’une blanche ou la moitié d’une noire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croche · croche · French

croche · rank #34,046 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,046
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH critiquait

Nearest frequency peer: critiquait (-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 « croche »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « croche » 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).

croche vs crocs
67% similar
croche vs croie
67% similar
croche vs croco
67% similar

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

Key facts for croche
PropertyValue
Headwordcroche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁɔʃ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#34,046
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croche »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.crochese 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 « critiquait » (#34,045), « cryptage » (#34,047), « CST » (#34,048). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croche » est au #34,046. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around croche (IPA \kʁɔʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,046 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for croche, with forms such as "ccroche", "corche", and "crcohe". 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, "crocs", "croie", "croco", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is croche, spelled C-R-O-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Note de musique qui vaut, pour la durée, le quart d’une blanche ou la moitié d’une noire.
  2. 2
    Symbole graphique (♪) représentant une telle note.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. En conséquence, on dit simplement une noire vaut deux croches ou quatre doubles-croches, ou huit triples-croches, ou seize quadruples-croches.

This word in other languages

eighth note(English)corchea(Español)Achtelnote(Deutsch)colcheia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccroche
  • corche
  • crcohe
  • crocche
  • croceh
  • crochhe
  • crohce
  • crroche
  • rcoche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccroche1corche2crcohe2crocche1croceh2crochhe1crohce2crroche1
Edit distance from "croche"

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 "croche"?
"croche" is spelled C-R-O-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁɔʃ\.
What does "croche" mean?
As a noun, "croche" means: Note de musique qui vaut, pour la durée, le quart d’une blanche ou la moitié d’une noire.
What words are commonly confused with "croche"?
"croche" is commonly confused with "crocs", "croie", "croco". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croche" is \kʁɔʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croche" come from?
"croche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dattes#34,053denier#34,056digère#34,059diurne#34,063

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

current9 variantsDeneuve9 variantscommittee9 variantsdurcit9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list