cruauté
\kʁy.o.te\
The verdict
“cruauté” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,544
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaisir que l’on éprouve à faire souffrir ou à voir souffrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cruaute · cruauté · French
cruauté · rank #12,544 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,544
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croisement
Nearest frequency peer: croisement (-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 « cruauté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- continuelle…
continuellement
87,460 corpus weight
- contradicti…
contradictions
87,459 corpus weight
- croisement
croisement
87,458 corpus weight
- cruauté
cruauté
87,457 corpus weight
- culs
culs
87,456 corpus weight
- cumul
cumul
87,455 corpus weight
What this shows « cruauté » 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 | cruauté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁy.o.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruauté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cruauté (IPA \kʁy.o.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,544 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruauté, with forms such as "ccruauté", "crauuté", and "crruauté". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "croûte", "croate", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cruauté, spelled C-R-U-A-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Plaisir que l’on éprouve à faire souffrir ou à voir souffrir.
- 2Grande affliction, grand revers de fortune.
- 3Action cruelle.
- 4L'indifférence ou les rigueurs d'un être cher.
- 5Acte rigoureux, injuste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruauté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils prirent des femmes parmi eux, et menèrent une vie agréable jusqu’à l’époque où leur insolence et leur cruauté poussèrent les naturels à en massacrer une partie.
Elle est captive parmi ces hommes de Bélial, et ils vont exercer leur cruauté sur elle, sans pitié pour sa jeunesse et pour sa beauté.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccruauté
- crauuté
- crruauté
- cruatué
- cruaute
- cruautté
- cruauét
- cruuaté
- curauté
- rcuauté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruauté - 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 "cruauté", 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).