croiser
\kʁwa.ze\
The verdict
“croiser” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,418 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #7,418
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Disposer en forme de croix.
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 | croiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “croiser” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for croiser is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁwa.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,418 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for croiser, with forms such as "ccroiser", "coriser", and "crioser". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crosse", "cruise", "croquer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is croiser, spelled C-R-O-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Disposer en forme de croix.
- 2Disposer l’un sur l’autre.
- 3Disposer un vêtement de manière que les côtés passent l’un sur l’autre.
- 4Tracer une croix comme signe religieux.
- 5Placer ou tenir une arme de manière qu'elle soit dirigée en avant.
- 6Tordre légèrement avec un moulin.
- 7Traverser ; aller ; passer en travers de.
- 8Faire le même trajet, mais en sens contraire, c’est-à-dire l’une allant, et l’autre venant, en parlant de deux personnes ou de deux choses.
- 9Se croiser avec quelqu'un : le rencontrer alors qu'il chemine en sens contraire.
- 10Rencontrer dans ses desseins ou dans ses actes.
- 11Accoupler des spécimens de races différentes.
- 12Recouper des informations ; en étudier les corrélations.
- 13S’engager par un vœu solennel dans une croisade, et, pour marque de ce vœu, porter une croix sur ses habits → voir croisé.
- 14Se dit des vêtements dont les côtés passent l’un sur l’autre.
- 15Aller et venir dans quelque parage, pour attendre des bâtiments ennemis, pour bloquer un port et en éloigner les navires étrangers, en parlant de vaisseaux de guerre.
- 16Aller et venir en mer, pour des bâtiments à usage civil ou commercial.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroiser,coriser,crioser,croiesr,croiserr,croisre,croisser,crosier,crroiser,rcoiser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croiser - 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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Using “croiser”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-O-I-S-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁwa.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “crosse” - see the side-by-side comparison. croiser vs crosse
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.