croisées

\kʁwa.ze\

/\kʁwa.ze\/ adj

The verdict

“croisées” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,976. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,976
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de croisé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croisees · croisées · French

croisées · rank #18,976 · 12 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,976
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH croisades

Nearest frequency peer: croisades (-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 « croisées »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « croisées » 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).

croisées vs croiser
75% similar
croisées vs croises
88% similar
croisées vs croisez
75% similar

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

Key facts for croisées
PropertyValue
Headwordcroisées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kʁwa.ze\
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,976
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croisées »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).croiséesse 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 « croisades » (#18,975), « croît » (#18,977), « crayons » (#18,974). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croisées » est au #18,976. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around croisées (IPA \kʁwa.ze\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,976 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de croisé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for croisées, with forms such as "ccroisées", "corisées", and "criosées". 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, "croiser", "croises", "croisez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is croisées, spelled C-R-O-I-S-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de croisé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Nous n’en avons donc pas fini, parce que la fin de l’histoire n’a pas eu lieu, avec les questions croisées du nationalisme, de la nation et de l’ethnicité. Ni avec le problème récurrent des rapports entre les peuples, les États et la mégamachine à mondialiser et à transétatiser qu’est le capitalisme, pourtant lié historiquement à la construction de l’État…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccroisées
  • corisées
  • criosées
  • croisees
  • croiseés
  • croissées
  • croiséess
  • croisése
  • croiéses
  • crosiées
  • crroisées
  • rcoisées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croisées - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccroisées1corisées2criosées2croisees1croiseés2croissées1croiséess1croisése2
Edit distance from "croisées"

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 "croisées"?
"croisées" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.ze\.
What does "croisées" mean?
As an adjective, "croisées" means: Féminin pluriel de croisé.
What words are commonly confused with "croisées"?
"croisées" is commonly confused with "croiser", "croises", "croisez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croisées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croisées" is \kʁwa.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croisées" come from?
"croisées" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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 (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list