cruche
\kʁyʃ\
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
- courbet
courbet
72,613 corpus weight
- coutumier
coutumier
72,612 corpus weight
- crible
crible
72,611 corpus weight
- cruche
cruche
72,610 corpus weight
- csc
csc
72,609 corpus weight
- cutanées
cutanées
72,607 corpus weight
What this shows « cruche » 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 | cruche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁyʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruche »
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
- 1Vase de terre ou de grès, à anse, qui a ordinairement la panse large et le col étroit.
- 2Vase de terre ou de grès, à anse, qui a ordinairement la panse large et le col étroit.
- 3Bouillotte.
- 4Personne inintelligente, idiot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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 !
Cruche pleine d’huile, pleine d’eau.
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.
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 "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).