cruche

\kʁyʃ\

/\kʁyʃ\/ noun

The verdict

“cruche” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,391
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vase de terre ou de grès, à anse, qui a ordinairement la panse large et le col étroit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cruche · cruche · French

cruche · rank #27,391 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,391
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH crible

Nearest frequency peer: crible (-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 « cruche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « cruche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cruche vs crue
67% similar
cruche vs crush
67% similar
cruche vs cruise
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cruche
PropertyValue
Headwordcruche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁyʃ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#27,391
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruche »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cruchese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « crible » (#27,390), « csc » (#27,392), « coutumier » (#27,389). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cruche » est au #27,391. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around cruche (IPA \kʁyʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,391 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruche, with forms such as "ccruche", "crcuhe", and "crruche". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crue", "crush", "cruise", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cruche, spelled C-R-U-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vase de terre ou de grès, à anse, qui a ordinairement la panse large et le col étroit.
  2. 2
    Vase de terre ou de grès, à anse, qui a ordinairement la panse large et le col étroit.
  3. 3
    Bouillotte.
  4. 4
    Personne inintelligente, idiot.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cruche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Aujourd'hui, on y fabrique des vases, des cruches, des pots, des cache-pots. Mais attention, ils ne sont pas de la même couleur qu'à Soufflenheim ! Rien à voir !
  2. Cruche pleine d’huile, pleine d’eau.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccruche
  • crcuhe
  • crruche
  • crucche
  • cruceh
  • cruchhe
  • cruhce
  • curche
  • rcuche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruche - 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.

ccruche1crcuhe2crruche1crucche1cruceh2cruchhe1cruhce2curche2
Edit distance from "cruche"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cruche"?
"cruche" is spelled C-R-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁyʃ\.
What does "cruche" mean?
As a noun, "cruche" means: Vase de terre ou de grès, à anse, qui a ordinairement la panse large et le col étroit.
What words are commonly confused with "cruche"?
"cruche" is commonly confused with "crue", "crush", "cruise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cruche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cruche" is \kʁyʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cruche" come from?
"cruche" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cruche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list