croisant
\kʁwa.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“croisant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,269
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe croiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croisant · croisant · French
croisant · rank #25,269 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,269
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Crif
Nearest frequency peer: Crif (-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 « croisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Coulibaly
Coulibaly
74,736 corpus weight
- courbure
courbure
74,735 corpus weight
- Crif
Crif
74,733 corpus weight
- croisant
croisant
74,732 corpus weight
- créera
créera
74,730 corpus weight
- curseur
curseur
74,729 corpus weight
What this shows « croisant » 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 | croisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around croisant (IPA \kʁwa.zɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,269 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe croiser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croisant, with forms such as "ccroisant", "corisant", and "criosant". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "croyant", "cuisant", "croisent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croisant, spelled C-R-O-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe croiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 68, nous expérimentâmes la marche sudique entre le Congo et le Jean-Bart, utilisant de mini-échasses comme telles, ou comme des bâtons de skis de randonnée, pour rapidifier notre rythme : nous essuyâmes au passage gros rires et quolibets… et croisant aujourd’hui au Parc bordelais ces flopées de gens respectables pratiquant dévotement leur sacro-sainte…
Je viens de parcourir sur un tanka les rues de la ville flottante, sans cesse sillonnées par des milliers de bateaux, allant et venant, se croisant en tous sens ; dans la ville marchande tout bateau est une boutique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroisant
- corisant
- criosant
- croiasnt
- croisannt
- croisantt
- croisatn
- croisnat
- crosiant
- crroisant
- rcoisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croisant - 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.
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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).