croissante

/\kʁwa.sɑ̃t\/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,091

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

croissante is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de croissant. Pronounced \kʁwa.sɑ̃t\. It ranks #8,091 in French word frequency. Often confused with croissent and croissants.

Key facts for croissante
PropertyValue
Headwordcroissante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kʁwa.sɑ̃t\
Letters10
Frequency rank#8,091
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of croissante in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for croissante is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁwa.sɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,091 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de croissant.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for croissante, with forms such as "ccroissante", "corissante", and "criossante". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "croissent", "croissants", "croissantes", 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 croissante, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de croissant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccroissante,corissante,criossante,croisante,croisasnte,croissanet,croissannte,croissantte,croissatne,croissnate,crosisante,crroissante,rcoissante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for croissante

Misspelling Variants of "croissante"

ccroissante11corissante10criossante10croisante9croisasnte10croissanet10croissannte11croissantte11
Misspelling Variants of "croissante"

Frequency rank: #8,091 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "croissante"?
"croissante" is spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁwa.sɑ̃t\.
What does "croissante" mean?
As an adj, "croissante" means: Féminin singulier de croissant.
What words are commonly confused with "croissante"?
"croissante" is commonly confused with "croissent", "croissants", "croissantes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "croissante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croissante" is \kʁwa.sɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "croissante" come from?
"croissante" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.