croisent
\kʁwaz\
The verdict
“croisent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,652. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,652
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de croiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croisent · croisent · French
croisent · rank #14,652 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,652
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cristiano
Nearest frequency peer: cristiano (-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 « croisent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coussin
coussin
85,352 corpus weight
- couvercle
couvercle
85,351 corpus weight
- cristiano
cristiano
85,350 corpus weight
- croisent
croisent
85,349 corpus weight
- descendent
descendent
85,347 corpus weight
- destinataire
destinataire
85,346 corpus weight
What this shows « croisent » 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 | croisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwaz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croisent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around croisent (IPA \kʁwaz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,652 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croisent, with forms such as "ccroisent", "corisent", and "criosent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "croiser", "croises", "croisez", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is croisent, spelled C-R-O-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de croiser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de croiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les signes se croisent sur mon chemin. Seulement les signes qui fébrilent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroisent
- corisent
- criosent
- croiesnt
- croisennt
- croisentt
- croisetn
- croisnet
- crosient
- crroisent
- rcoisent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croisent - 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
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).