croyaient
\kʁwa.jɛ\
The verdict
“croyaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,239
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de croire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croyaient · croyaient · French
croyaient · rank #14,239 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,239
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruelle
Nearest frequency peer: cruelle (+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 « croyaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couvertes
couvertes
85,765 corpus weight
- Covid
Covid
85,764 corpus weight
- croyaient
croyaient
85,762 corpus weight
- cruelle
cruelle
85,761 corpus weight
- Daech
Daech
85,760 corpus weight
- dany
dany
85,759 corpus weight
What this shows « croyaient » 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 | croyaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croyaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around croyaient (IPA \kʁwa.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,239 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de croire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for croyaient, with forms such as "ccroyaient", "coryaient", and "croayient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "croyait", "croyant", "croyais", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is croyaient, spelled C-R-O-Y-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de croire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croyaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses principaux officiers sous-évaluaient le potentiel militaire soviétique et croyaient, eux aussi, qu’un blitzkrieg viendrait à bout de ces vastes régions en quelques semaines.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroyaient
- coryaient
- croayient
- croyaeint
- croyaiennt
- croyaientt
- croyaietn
- croyainet
- croyiaent
- croyyaient
- crroyaient
- cryoaient
- rcoyaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croyaient - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).