croies

\kʁwa\

/\kʁwa\/ verb

The verdict

“croies” is uncommon French (frequency #86,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,587
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de croire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croies · croies · French

croies · rank #86,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,587
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH crossed

Nearest frequency peer: crossed (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « croies »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for croies
PropertyValue
Headwordcroies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁwa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#86,587
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « croies » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).croiestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « crossed » (#86,588), « creusaient » (#86,585), « crucis » (#86,589). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croies » est au #86,587. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

croies is uncommon French at frequency #86,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de croire.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for croies, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 croies, spelled C-R-O-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de croire.

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 "croies"?
"croies" is spelled C-R-O-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa\.
What does "croies" mean?
As a verb, "croies" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de croire.
How do you pronounce "croies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croies" is \kʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croies" come from?
"croies" 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 "croies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list