croustillant
\kʁu.sti.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“croustillant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,958
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui croque sous la dent comme de la croûte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croustillant · croustillant · French
croustillant · rank #25,958 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,958
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH custom
Nearest frequency peer: custom (+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 « croustillant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coordonne
coordonne
74,047 corpus weight
- Corentin
Corentin
74,046 corpus weight
- cotton
cotton
74,045 corpus weight
- croustillant
croustillant
74,043 corpus weight
- custom
custom
74,042 corpus weight
- daft
daft
74,040 corpus weight
What this shows « croustillant » 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 | croustillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁu.sti.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #25,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croustillant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around croustillant (IPA \kʁu.sti.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,958 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for croustillant, with forms such as "ccroustillant", "corustillant", and "crosutillant". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "croustillante", "croustillants", "croustillantes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 croustillant, spelled C-R-O-U-S-T-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui croque sous la dent comme de la croûte.
- 2Qui craque légèrement.
- 3Grivois, osé.
- 4Qui excite, qui éveille les sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croustillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un biscuit croustillant.
Alors, repoussés par l’ombre, on gagna la cabane de bois ouverte à tous les vents : on déblaya les châlits couverts de neige, on racla le givre sur les matelas et on passa la nuit dans des couvertures croustillantes qui se ramollirent au fur et à mesure que la chaleur de nos corps faisait fondre la glace.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroustillant
- corustillant
- crosutillant
- crousitllant
- crousstillant
- croustilalnt
- croustilant
- croustillannt
- croustillantt
- croustillatn
- croustillnat
- croustlilant
- crousttillant
- croutsillant
- crroustillant
- cruostillant
- rcoustillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croustillant - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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