crotte
\kʁɔt\
The verdict
“crotte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,221
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fiente, en forme de boulettes, de certains animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crotte · crotte · French
crotte · rank #22,221 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,221
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couchant
Nearest frequency peer: couchant (-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 “crotte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- constituaie…
constituaient
77,783 corpus weight
- corbeille
corbeille
77,782 corpus weight
- couchant
couchant
77,781 corpus weight
- crotte
crotte
77,780 corpus weight
- cutanée
cutanée
77,778 corpus weight
- Dailymotion
Dailymotion
77,777 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “crotte” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | crotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “crotte” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around crotte (IPA \kʁɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,221 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for crotte, with forms such as "ccrotte", "cortte", and "crote". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "croûte", "crypte", "croupe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is crotte, spelled C-R-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fiente, en forme de boulettes, de certains animaux.
- 2Friandise au chocolat.
- 3État indésirable, dangereux, misérable.
- 4Mélange de poussière et d’eau de pluie, dans les rues, sur les chemins, etc.
- 5Chose de peu d’importance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dernières, relativement denses, restent bien formées plusieurs années malgré les pluies et semblent peu intéresser les insectes coprophages ; les bousiers leur préfèrent la petite crotte de mouton, très abondante.
Les feuilles éparses autour des crottes m'incitèrent à croire qu'il avait même pris le soin de se torcher l’oignon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrotte
- cortte
- crote
- crotet
- crrotte
- crtote
- rcotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crotte - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crotte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "crotte" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "croûte". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #22,221 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
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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.