croissant
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,545
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
croissant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui s’accroît ; qui va augmentant. Pronounced \kʁwa.sɑ̃\. It ranks #5,545 in French word frequency. Often confused with croissent and croissante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kʁwa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for croissant is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁwa.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,545 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for croissant, with forms such as "ccroissant", "corissant", and "criossant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is croissant, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui s’accroît ; qui va augmentant.
- 2Relatif aux phases de la lune quand elle passe de la nouvelle lune à la pleine lune.
- 3Qui 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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroissant,corissant,criossant,croisasnt,croissannt,croissantt,croissatn,croissnat,crosisant,crroissant,rcoissant
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for croissant
Misspelling Variants of "croissant"
Frequency rank: #5,545 in French
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