croire

\kʁwaʁ\

/\kʁwaʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“croire” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#579
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tenir pour véritable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croire · croire · French

croire · rank #579 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #579
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH confiance

Nearest frequency peer: confiance (-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 « croire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « croire » 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).

croire vs crois
67% similar
croire vs croix
67% similar
croire vs cuire
67% similar

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

Key facts for croire
PropertyValue
Headwordcroire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁwaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#579
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).croirese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « confiance » (#578), « Date » (#580), « chance » (#577). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croire » est au #579. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around croire (IPA \kʁwaʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #579 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for croire, with forms such as "ccroire", "corire", and "criore". 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, "crois", "croix", "cuire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is croire, spelled C-R-O-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tenir pour véritable.
  2. 2
    Avoir la foi et recevoir avec soumission d’esprit tout ce que la religion enseigne.
  3. 3
    Tenir pour sincère ou véridique.
  4. 4
    S’en rapporter à quelqu’un, à quelque chose.
  5. 5
    Tenir pour vraisemblable, réel ou possible.
  6. 6
    Penser, estimer, s'imaginer, présumer.
  7. 7
    Croire naïvement, être trop optimiste.
  8. 8
    Ajouter foi à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose ; s’y fier.
  9. 9
    Avoir confiance en quelqu’un, en ses talents, en sa parole.
  10. 10
    S’imaginer.
  11. 11
    Être vaniteux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je crois que les disputes théologiques sont à la fois la farce la plus ridicule et le fléau le plus affreux de la terre, immédiatement après la guerre, la peste, la famine et la vérole.
  2. Le plus souvent des observations ultérieures permettent de rectifier les erreurs d'un premier résultat : c'est ainsi qu'on avait cru d'abord que Nysa devait couper l'orbite de Mars, tandis qu elle est toujours à 15 millions de lieues au moins au-dessus de cette planète.

This word in other languages

believe(English)creer(Español)glauben(Deutsch)crer(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccroire
  • corire
  • criore
  • croier
  • croirre
  • crorie
  • crroire
  • rcoire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ccroire1corire2criore2croier2croirre1crorie2crroire1rcoire2
Edit distance from "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 "croire"?
"croire" is spelled C-R-O-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwaʁ\.
What does "croire" mean?
As a verb, "croire" means: Tenir pour véritable.
What words are commonly confused with "croire"?
"croire" is commonly confused with "crois", "croix", "cuire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croire" is \kʁwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croire" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

chance#577manque#584petits#587emploi#567

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

laisser8 variantsmêmes8 variantsétats8 variantsblanc8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list