croupe
\kʁup\
The verdict
“croupe” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,453
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie arrière du corps de quadrupèdes, tel le cheval, située après les reins (région lombaire) et les hanches mais avant la queue, et qui correspond aux fesses chez l’homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croupe · croupe · French
croupe · rank #35,453 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,453
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courroux
Nearest frequency peer: courroux (-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 « croupe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cotillard
Cotillard
64,551 corpus weight
- counter
counter
64,550 corpus weight
- courroux
courroux
64,549 corpus weight
- croupe
croupe
64,548 corpus weight
- cumulée
cumulée
64,547 corpus weight
- cupcakes
cupcakes
64,546 corpus weight
What this shows « croupe » 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 | croupe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁup\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croupe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around croupe (IPA \kʁup\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,453 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for croupe, with forms such as "ccroupe", "corupe", and "cropue". 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, "crue", "CROUS", "croûte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 croupe, spelled C-R-O-U-P-E.
Definition
- 1Partie arrière du corps de quadrupèdes, tel le cheval, située après les reins (région lombaire) et les hanches mais avant la queue, et qui correspond aux fesses chez l’homme.
- 2Fesses charnues.
- 3Sommet ou colline de forme arrondie et un peu allongée ; haut d'une montagne qui se prolonge et qui n’est pas à pic.
- 4Partie arrondie du comble qui surmonte le chevet d’une église, qui forme le prolongement d’un mur de pignon et qui se rattache aux deux égouts du toit par des arêtiers.
- 5Pissenlit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croupe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se replaça dans le coin de la calèche, et ses yeux se fixèrent sur la croupe des chevaux sans trahir aucune espèce de sentiment.
On saisit le Lapin par les oreilles, aussi près que possible de leur base, à l'aide d'une seule main. Avec l'autre, placée sous la croupe, on soutient le poids de l'animal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroupe
- corupe
- cropue
- crouep
- crouppe
- crroupe
- cruope
- rcoupe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croupe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).