croiseur
\kʁwa.zœʁ\
The verdict
“croiseur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,967
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment de guerre, de combat, de grande taille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croiseur · croiseur · French
croiseur · rank #30,967 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croises
Nearest frequency peer: croises (-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 « croiseur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coyotes
coyotes
69,037 corpus weight
- critérium
critérium
69,036 corpus weight
- croises
croises
69,035 corpus weight
- croiseur
croiseur
69,034 corpus weight
- crut
crut
69,033 corpus weight
- cultivent
cultivent
69,032 corpus weight
What this shows « croiseur » 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 | croiseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁwa.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croiseur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around croiseur (IPA \kʁwa.zœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,967 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 croiseur, with forms such as "ccroiseur", "coriseur", and "crioseur". 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, "croisez", "cruiser", "croiseurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 croiseur, spelled C-R-O-I-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment de guerre, de combat, de grande taille.
- 2Bâtiment de guerre doué d’une grande vitesse et destiné à détruire le commerce des ennemis, à faire les reconnaissances, à éclairer les cuirassés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croiseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le hasard nous fit rencontrer le commandant du croiseur-école Danois « Hemjdal », le capitaine de Frégate Godfred Hansen, qui fut un des compagnons d’Amundsen lors de son expédition du passage du Nord-Ouest.
Le lendemain de mon arrivée, le launch du Rochester, croiseur portant le guidon de l’amiral américain, venait accoster le long du Firecrest.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroiseur
- coriseur
- crioseur
- croiesur
- croiseru
- croiseurr
- croisseur
- croisuer
- crosieur
- crroiseur
- rcoiseur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croiseur - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).