croyait
\kʁwa.jɛ\
The verdict
“croyait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,333
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de croire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croyait · croyait · French
croyait · rank #5,333 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,333
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrainte
Nearest frequency peer: contrainte (-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 « croyait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- continu
continu
94,671 corpus weight
- continuez
continuez
94,670 corpus weight
- contrainte
contrainte
94,669 corpus weight
- croyait
croyait
94,668 corpus weight
- day
day
94,667 corpus weight
- difficileme…
difficilement
94,666 corpus weight
What this shows « croyait » 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 | croyait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croyait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around croyait (IPA \kʁwa.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,333 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de croire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for croyait, with forms such as "ccroyait", "coryait", and "croayit". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "croyant", "croyants", "croyante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is croyait, spelled C-R-O-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de croire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croyait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fells rôdaient, insaisissables ; on les croyait ici, ils apparaissaient plus loin ; on partait les y chercher, ils se trouvaient ailleurs.
Cependant elle traitait Calyste en femme qui se croyait des droits sur lui ; ses projets l’autorisaient à le surveiller ; non qu’elle apportât des idées étroites en matière de galanterie, elle avait l’indulgence des vieilles femmes de l’ancien régime ; mais elle avait en horreur les mœurs révolutionnaires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroyait
- coryait
- croayit
- croyaitt
- croyati
- croyiat
- croyyait
- crroyait
- cryoait
- rcoyait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croyait - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).