croissant

\kʁwa.sɑ̃\

/\kʁwa.sɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“croissant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,545. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,545
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’accroît ; qui va augmentant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-croissant · croissant · French

croissant · rank #5,545 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,545
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH criminels

Nearest frequency peer: criminels (-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 « croissant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « croissant » 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).

croissant vs croissent
89% similar
croissant vs croissante
90% similar
croissant vs croissants
90% similar

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

Key facts for croissant
PropertyValue
Headwordcroissant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kʁwa.sɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#5,545
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croissant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.croissantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « criminels » (#5,544), « densité » (#5,546), « dispute » (#5,547). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « croissant » est au #5,545. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around croissant (IPA \kʁwa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,545 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croissant, with forms such as "ccroissant", "corissant", and "criossant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "croissent", "croissante", "croissants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is croissant, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui s’accroît ; qui va augmentant.
  2. 2
    Relatif aux phases de la lune quand elle passe de la nouvelle lune à la pleine lune.
  3. 3
    Qui satisfait la condition f(s) ≤ f(t) si s ≤ t pour tout couple (s, t) d’éléments, en parlant d’une fonction d’une variable réelle f.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Et moi je vous dis, s’écria Marguerite avec un dépit croissant, moi je vous dis qu’il ne viendra pas.
  2. Nous avons présenté cette histoire, non dans une successivité véritablement chronologique, mais dans un ordre d’heuristicité croissante.

Synonyms

augmentant

Antonyms

décroissant

This word in other languages

increasing(English)creciente(Español)wachsend(Deutsch)crescente(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccroissant
  • corissant
  • criossant
  • croisasnt
  • croissannt
  • croissantt
  • croissatn
  • croissnat
  • crosisant
  • crroissant
  • rcoissant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croissant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccroissant1corissant2criossant2croisasnt2croissannt1croissantt1croissatn2croissnat2
Edit distance from "croissant"

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 "croissant"?
"croissant" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.sɑ̃\.
What does "croissant" mean?
As an adjective, "croissant" means: Qui s’accroît ; qui va augmentant.
What words are commonly confused with "croissant"?
"croissant" is commonly confused with "croissent", "croissante", "croissants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croissant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croissant" is \kʁwa.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croissant" come from?
"croissant" 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 "croissant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

criminels#5,544contrôles#5,542contribue#5,541contraint#5,540

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

densité11 variantsdouleurs11 variantscomplot11 variantsclôture11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list