croyant
\kʁwa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“croyant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,294
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui croit ce que sa religion enseigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croyant · croyant · French
croyant · rank #7,294 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,294
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constructeurs
Nearest frequency peer: constructeurs (-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 « croyant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- complémenta…
complémentaire
92,710 corpus weight
- conducteurs
conducteurs
92,709 corpus weight
- constructeu…
constructeurs
92,708 corpus weight
- croyant
croyant
92,707 corpus weight
- créent
créent
92,706 corpus weight
- cycliste
cycliste
92,705 corpus weight
What this shows « croyant » 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 | croyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁwa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croyant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around croyant (IPA \kʁwa.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,294 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui croit ce que sa religion enseigne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croyant, with forms such as "ccroyant", "coryant", and "croaynt". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "croyons", "croyants", "croyante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 croyant, spelled C-R-O-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui croit ce que sa religion enseigne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how croyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Échappé comme par miracle à un grand danger, il fit vœu de quitter le monde et se retira à la Trappe. L'abbé de Rancé, sur lequel Chateaubriand a écrit son dernier livre, le renvoya, comme peu croyant.
Nous sommes en chemin vers une affirmation paradoxale : plus je suis croyant, moins je devrais le montrer. La laïcité est anticléricale et non antireligieuse, comme l’actera la loi de décembre 1905.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroyant
- coryant
- croaynt
- croyannt
- croyantt
- croyatn
- croynat
- croyyant
- crroyant
- cryoant
- rcoyant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croyant - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).