CROUS
\kʁus\
The verdict
“CROUS” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,502
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme chargé des œuvres sociales, de l’hébergement et de la restauration des étudiants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crous · CROUS · French
CROUS · rank #23,502 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,502
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crocodiles
Nearest frequency peer: crocodiles (-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 « CROUS »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coulisse
coulisse
76,502 corpus weight
- crampes
crampes
76,501 corpus weight
- crocodiles
crocodiles
76,500 corpus weight
- CROUS
CROUS
76,499 corpus weight
- crêtes
crêtes
76,498 corpus weight
- cédant
cédant
76,497 corpus weight
What this shows « CROUS » 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 | CROUS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁus\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « CROUS »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around CROUS (IPA \kʁus\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,502 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisme chargé des œuvres sociales, de l’hébergement et de la restauration des étudiants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for CROUS, with forms such as "ccrous", "crosu", and "crouss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cru", "CRS", "crue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is CROUS, spelled C-R-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Organisme chargé des œuvres sociales, de l’hébergement et de la restauration des étudiants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CROUS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’a pas pu m’embaucher, comme je n’ai pas les diplômes qu’il faut, mais il s’est arrangé pour que je puisse travailler à temps partiel au CROUS, ce qui me permet, outre le petit salaire que je touche, d’avoir accès à la bibliothèque universitaire et au campus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrous
- crosu
- crouss
- crrous
- cruos
- rcous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of CROUS - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).