croisait
\kʁwa.zɛ\
The verdict
“croisait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,370. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,370
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de croiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croisait · croisait · French
croisait · rank #43,370 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,370
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crowley
Nearest frequency peer: Crowley (+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 « croisait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cousteau
Cousteau
56,634 corpus weight
- crapule
crapule
56,633 corpus weight
- croisait
croisait
56,631 corpus weight
- Crowley
Crowley
56,630 corpus weight
- Cthulhu
Cthulhu
56,629 corpus weight
- cumulées
cumulées
56,628 corpus weight
What this shows « croisait » 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 | croisait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croisait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around croisait (IPA \kʁwa.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,370 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de croiser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croisait, with forms such as "ccroisait", "corisait", and "criosait". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "croyait", "croisent", "croisant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is croisait, spelled C-R-O-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de croiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croisait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur une récupération du prometteur D. Doué, Bourigeaud ne croisait pas assez (70’) !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroisait
- corisait
- criosait
- croiasit
- croisaitt
- croisati
- croisiat
- croissait
- crosiait
- crroisait
- rcoisait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croisait - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).