croisade

\kʁwa.zad\

/\kʁwa.zad\/ noun

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The verdict

“croisade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,943
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligue, expédition faite par les chrétiens contre les peuples hérétiques ou d’autres religions, ainsi nommée parce que ceux qui s’y engageaient portaient une croix sur leur habit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croisade · croisade · French

croisade · rank #11,943 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,943
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH crack

Nearest frequency peer: crack (-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 « croisade »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « croisade » 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).

croisade vs croisé
63% similar
croisade vs croisée
75% similar
croisade vs croisant
75% similar

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

Key facts for croisade
PropertyValue
Headwordcroisade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁwa.zad\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,943
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croisade »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « crack » (#11,942), « crête » (#11,944), « coéquipiers » (#11,941). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croisade » est au #11,943. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around croisade (IPA \kʁwa.zad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,943 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croisade, with forms such as "ccroisade", "corisade", and "criosade". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "croisé", "croisée", "croisant", 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 croisade, spelled C-R-O-I-S-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ligue, expédition faite par les chrétiens contre les peuples hérétiques ou d’autres religions, ainsi nommée parce que ceux qui s’y engageaient portaient une croix sur leur habit.
  2. 2
    Concertation d’efforts entre plusieurs personnes pour combattre des institutions, des idées qui leur paraissent mauvaises.
  3. 3
    Croisement.
  4. 4
    Carrefour de chemins.
  5. 5
    Signe de croix.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Lui aussi avait été combattre les infidèles, mais en Terre Sainte : les liens de parenté, le renom qu’il avait acquis dans la croisade, […], lui avaient ouvert les portes du château de Godesberg comme à un hôte distingué ; ….
  2. Pour la Papauté personnifiée dans Innocent III, la guerre contre les Albigeois était une croisade contre les hérétiques.

This word in other languages

crusade(English)cruzada(Español)Kreuzzug(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccroisade
  • corisade
  • criosade
  • croiasde
  • croisadde
  • croisaed
  • croisdae
  • croissade
  • crosiade
  • crroisade
  • rcoisade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croisade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccroisade1corisade2criosade2croiasde2croisadde1croisaed2croisdae2croissade1
Edit distance from "croisade"

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 "croisade"?
"croisade" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.zad\.
What does "croisade" mean?
As a noun, "croisade" means: Ligue, expédition faite par les chrétiens contre les peuples hérétiques ou d’autres religions, ainsi nommée parce que ceux qui s’y engageaient portaient une croix sur leur habit.
What words are commonly confused with "croisade"?
"croisade" is commonly confused with "croisé", "croisée", "croisant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croisade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croisade" is \kʁwa.zad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croisade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dérouler#11,956choquant#11,928chapeaux#11,927embauché#11,959

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

confère11 variantscercueil11 variantsbarbarie11 variantsanimales11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list