croyais
\kʁwa.jɛ\
The verdict
“croyais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,747
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de croire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croyais · croyais · French
croyais · rank #3,747 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,747
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvre
Nearest frequency peer: couvre (-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 « croyais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constate
constate
96,257 corpus weight
- couvre
couvre
96,255 corpus weight
- croyais
croyais
96,254 corpus weight
- Dominique
Dominique
96,253 corpus weight
- dommages
dommages
96,252 corpus weight
- défend
défend
96,251 corpus weight
What this shows « croyais » 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 | croyais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croyais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around croyais (IPA \kʁwa.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,747 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for croyais, with forms such as "ccroyais", "coryais", and "croayis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "croyait", "croyant", "croyons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croyais, spelled C-R-O-Y-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de croire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de croire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croyais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’angoisse m’a saisi alors que je croyais que les perspectives de jouissances inédites m’exciteraient avant de m’emporter, fourbu mais comblé, dans un sommeil décauchemardé.
Qu’est-ce que tu croyais ? Que la chance allait enfin te sourire et t’assurer une sortie sous forme d’un golden parachute ? Mais la scoumoune qui s’est penchée sur ton berceau, avec une schlague en guise de baguette magique, elle ne te lâche plus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroyais
- coryais
- croayis
- croyaiss
- croyasi
- croyias
- croyyais
- crroyais
- cryoais
- rcoyais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croyais - 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 "croyais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).