croyance
\kʁwa.jɑ̃s\
The verdict
“croyance” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,171. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,171
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Connaissance considérée comme irréfutable sans qu’elle soit basée sur des preuves.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croyance · croyance · French
croyance · rank #7,171 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,171
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cousine
Nearest frequency peer: Cousine (-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 « croyance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commenter
commenter
92,834 corpus weight
- coupables
coupables
92,832 corpus weight
- Cousine
Cousine
92,831 corpus weight
- croyance
croyance
92,830 corpus weight
- culpabilité
culpabilité
92,828 corpus weight
- dangers
dangers
92,827 corpus weight
What this shows « croyance » 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 | croyance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁwa.jɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croyance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around croyance (IPA \kʁwa.jɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,171 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for croyance, with forms such as "ccroyance", "coryance", and "croaynce". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "croyant", "croyants", "croyante", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is croyance, spelled C-R-O-Y-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Connaissance considérée comme irréfutable sans qu’elle soit basée sur des preuves.
- 2Une telle connaissance affirmée dans une religion.
- 3Opinion, dans tous domaines, ayant le caractère d’une conviction intime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croyance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est donc à l’acheteur […] à ne pas s’endormir sur la croyance d’une ophtalmie extérieure ou motivée par un semblant de lésion, car dans ce temps pourrait se dissiper la vraie fluxion, […].
Un des aspects courants de la sottise humaine est cette croyance, que l’on découvre chez tant d’honnêtes imprévoyants, que tout durera, à peu de chose près, comme nous voyons les institutions et les choses aujourd’hui.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroyance
- coryance
- croaynce
- croyacne
- croyancce
- croyanec
- croyannce
- croynace
- croyyance
- crroyance
- cryoance
- rcoyance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croyance - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).