croix
\kʁwa\
The verdict
“croix” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,908 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,908
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Intersection formée par deux éléments qui se croisent.
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 | croix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “croix” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for croix is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,908 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for croix, with forms such as "ccroix", "corix", and "criox". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crop", "Cros", "crow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is croix, spelled C-R-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Intersection formée par deux éléments qui se croisent.
- 2Marque formée de deux traits perpendiculaires.
- 3Sorte de gibet où on attachait certains criminels.
- 4Supplice de Jésus-Christ, cloué sur une croix.
- 5Simulacre représentant le gibet où Jésus-Christ fut attaché et tué.
- 6Le christianisme.
- 7Affliction que Dieu enverrait aux hommes pour les éprouver.
- 8Fardeau moral, peine, affliction, gène, douleur physique ou morale que l'on doit supporter de la même manière que Jésus à du porter son instrument de supplice.
- 9Monument élevé à l’endroit où quelqu’un est mort, par accident ou assassinat.
- 10Petit ornement, en forme de croix.
- 11Décoration de divers ordres de chevalerie.
- 12La croix de la Légion d’honneur.
- 13Croix d’honneur, distinction hebdomadaire attribuée aux meilleurs élèves d'une classe.
- 14Le côté d’une pièce de monnaie opposé à la face et marqué autrefois d’une croix. On dit plutôt maintenant pile.
- 15Latte croisée que les maçons et couvreurs suspendent au bout d’une corde quand ils font une réparation au haut de la maison.
- 16Morceau de bois portant les têtes de chardon à carder.
- 17Pièce honorable, réunion du pal et de la fasce.
- 18Forme que prennent les deux câbles d’un bâtiment affourché, lorsqu’en évitant il passe par-dessous le câble qui ne travaille pas.
- 19Type d'échangeur autoroutier, particulièrement au Luxembourg; l'apparence de l'infrastructure vue de dessus est censée évoquer la forme géométrique (calque littéral de l'all. Kreuz, même sens).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccroix,corix,criox,croixx,croxi,crroix,rcoix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croix - 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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Using “croix”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-O-I-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “crop” - see the side-by-side comparison. croix vs crop
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.