croissante
\kʁwa.sɑ̃t\
The verdict
“croissante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,091
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de croissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croissante · croissante · French
croissante · rank #8,091 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,091
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuisiner
Nearest frequency peer: cuisiner (+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 « croissante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couture
couture
91,913 corpus weight
- coûter
coûter
91,912 corpus weight
- croissante
croissante
91,910 corpus weight
- cuisiner
cuisiner
91,909 corpus weight
- demeurent
demeurent
91,908 corpus weight
- dense
dense
91,907 corpus weight
What this shows « croissante » 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 | croissante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁwa.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croissante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around croissante (IPA \kʁwa.sɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,091 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de croissant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for croissante, with forms such as "ccroissante", "corissante", and "criossante". 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 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 croissante, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de croissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croissante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, oblitérant les lucioles sous son obscurité duvetée, une énorme et de plus en plus croissante chauve-souris, peut-être un vampire, peut-être un soucougnan, battant mollement des ailes au-dessus d’une savane sans herbes reconnaissables, ni horizon, au milieu de laquelle était statufié dans une pose de marathonien, un vieux petit garde champêtre terror…
Le roc lentement se meut et s’élève, tandis que se continue la lutte ; une peur croissante s’empare des misérables, de qui le courage faiblit ; ils hésitent ; mais toujours brave devant le danger, la jeune fille, d’un assaut terrible, heurte l’un des agresseurs qui perd pied et choit dans l’abîme où il disparaît en hurlant une malédiction aussitôt étouffée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroissante
- corissante
- criossante
- croisante
- croisasnte
- croissanet
- croissannte
- croissantte
- croissatne
- croissnate
- crosisante
- crroissante
- rcoissante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croissante - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).