cruciales
\kʁy.sjal\
The verdict
“cruciales” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,790. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,790
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de crucial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cruciales · cruciales · French
cruciales · rank #36,790 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,790
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Croisette
Nearest frequency peer: Croisette (-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 « cruciales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crisis
crisis
63,214 corpus weight
- CRM
CRM
63,213 corpus weight
- Croisette
Croisette
63,212 corpus weight
- cruciales
cruciales
63,211 corpus weight
- cuvier
cuvier
63,210 corpus weight
- desdits
desdits
63,209 corpus weight
What this shows « cruciales » 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 | cruciales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁy.sjal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruciales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cruciales (IPA \kʁy.sjal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,790 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de crucial.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruciales, with forms such as "ccruciales", "crcuiales", and "crruciales". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "crucial", "cruciale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cruciales, spelled C-R-U-C-I-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de crucial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cruciales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si ces deux articles ne vous apportent pas, c’est certain, « tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur les OGMs », gageons qu’ils tracent la voie à ce double objectif que nous avons fixé: éduquer (pour nous décréduliser) et remettre en question les cadres idéologiques qui, à notre insu ou non, nous privent d’une réflexion critique suffisamment mature p…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccruciales
- crcuiales
- crruciales
- crucailes
- crucciales
- cruciaels
- crucialess
- crucialles
- crucialse
- crucilaes
- cruicales
- curciales
- rcuciales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruciales - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).