croquant
\kʁɔ.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“croquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,236
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui croque sous la dent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croquant · croquant · French
croquant · rank #38,236 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,236
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cristo
Nearest frequency peer: Cristo (-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 « croquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cratères
cratères
61,768 corpus weight
- crisse
crisse
61,767 corpus weight
- Cristo
Cristo
61,766 corpus weight
- croquant
croquant
61,765 corpus weight
- cédées
cédées
61,764 corpus weight
- Daniela
Daniela
61,762 corpus weight
What this shows « croquant » 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 | croquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɔ.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around croquant (IPA \kʁɔ.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,236 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui croque sous la dent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for croquant, with forms such as "ccroquant", "corquant", and "croqaunt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "croyant", "choquant", "cliquant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 croquant, spelled C-R-O-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui croque sous la dent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Biscuit croquant.
Tourte croquante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroquant
- corquant
- croqaunt
- croqquant
- croquannt
- croquantt
- croquatn
- croqunat
- crouqant
- crqouant
- crroquant
- rcoquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croquant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "croquant"?
What does "croquant" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "croquant"?
How do you pronounce "croquant"?
What language does "croquant" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "croquant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).