CRS
\se.ɛ.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“CRS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,348) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,348
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de C.R.S.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crs · CRS · French
CRS · rank #12,348 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,348
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crache
Nearest frequency peer: crache (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « CRS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- contenait
contenait
87,656 corpus weight
- contredit
contredit
87,655 corpus weight
- crache
crache
87,654 corpus weight
- CRS
CRS
87,653 corpus weight
- crèche
crèche
87,652 corpus weight
- cubes
cubes
87,651 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « CRS » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | CRS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ɛ.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « CRS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CRS is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "Ct", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \se.ɛ.ʁɛs\. Frequency #12,348 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de C.R.S.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for CRS, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "Ct", "Cs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is CRS, spelled C-R-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de C.R.S.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how CRS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a brûlé ce qui tombait sous la main et les livres ont servi de combustibles comme ils avaient servi de projectiles. La première chose qui avait été lancée sur les CRS, c'est une bible !
Il avait réussi à prendre quelques photos : des CRS à moitié endormis, bottés et casqués, le Mauser lance-grenades à la bretelle, rencognés, non loin du CHU et de la fac de droit, comme une poignée d’oiseaux mouillés, sous les grimaces provocatrices et vengeresses des masques de pierre du vieil hôtel de Cerisy ; un garde-mobile ronflant la bouche ouverte,…
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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