croitre
\kʁwatʁ\
The verdict
“croitre” is uncommon French (frequency #62,901 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,901
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Variante de croître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croitre · croitre · French
croitre · rank #62,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,901
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croupir
Nearest frequency peer: croupir (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “croitre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- craies
craies
37,103 corpus weight
- crea
crea
37,102 corpus weight
- croitre
croitre
37,100 corpus weight
- croupir
croupir
37,099 corpus weight
- crûment
crûment
37,098 corpus weight
- cyrénaïque
cyrénaïque
37,096 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “croitre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croitre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwatʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “croitre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
croitre is uncommon French at frequency #62,901 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁwatʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de croître.".
croitre has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croitre, spelled C-R-O-I-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de croître.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.