croissance

\kʁwa.sɑ̃s\

/\kʁwa.sɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“croissance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,515. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,515
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Processus par lequel un être vivant croît, augmente en taille, en masse ou en complexité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croissance · croissance · French

croissance · rank #1,515 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,515
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH content

Nearest frequency peer: content (-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 « croissance »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « croissance » 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).

croissance vs croissant
80% similar
croissance vs croissante
90% similar
croissance vs croissants
80% similar

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

Key facts for croissance
PropertyValue
Headwordcroissance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁwa.sɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,515
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croissance »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).croissancese 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 « content » (#1,514), « célèbre » (#1,516), « conscience » (#1,513). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croissance » est au #1,515. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around croissance (IPA \kʁwa.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,515 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for croissance, with forms such as "ccroissance", "corissance", and "criossance". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "croissant", "croissante", "croissants", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is croissance, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Processus par lequel un être vivant croît, augmente en taille, en masse ou en complexité.
  2. 2
    Fait d’augmenter, de se développer, de propager.
  3. 3
    Pente d’une courbe dont on qualifie l’évolution.
  4. 4
    Augmentation sur le long terme de la production de biens et de services d’une économie, qui se mesure généralement année par année grâce au PIB.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cet ouvrage présente les connaissances actuelles sur l’écophysiologie du pois protéagineux : développement végétatif et reproducteur, croissance en condition non limitante, nutrition azotée.
  2. […] ; parmi les écotypes, la croissance de la luzerne maritime sur les plages de la plaine orientale et du plantain des sables sur celles de la Balagne, est conditionnée par la teneur locale de la salinité du sol ;[…].

Synonyms

développementaugmentationpropagation

Antonyms

décroissance

This word in other languages

growth(English)crecimiento(Español)Wachstum(Deutsch)crescimento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccroissance
  • corissance
  • criossance
  • croisance
  • croisasnce
  • croissacne
  • croissancce
  • croissanec
  • croissannce
  • croissnace
  • crosisance
  • crroissance
  • rcoissance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croissance - 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.

ccroissance1corissance2criossance2croisance1croisasnce2croissacne2croissancce1croissanec2
Edit distance from "croissance"

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 "croissance"?
"croissance" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.sɑ̃s\.
What does "croissance" mean?
As a noun, "croissance" means: Processus par lequel un être vivant croît, augmente en taille, en masse ou en complexité.
What words are commonly confused with "croissance"?
"croissance" is commonly confused with "croissant", "croissante", "croissants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croissance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croissance" is \kʁwa.sɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croissance" come from?
"croissance" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

conscience#1,513collection#1,512clairement#1,511exposition#1,521

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

davantage13 variantsinfluence13 variantsquébécois13 variantspersonnage13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list