cruelles
\kʁy.ɛl\
The verdict
“cruelles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,486
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de cruel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cruelles · cruelles · French
cruelles · rank #34,486 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,486
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crow
Nearest frequency peer: crow (-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 « cruelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coïncidences
coïncidences
65,518 corpus weight
- crow
crow
65,516 corpus weight
- cruelles
cruelles
65,515 corpus weight
- créerait
créerait
65,514 corpus weight
- cubique
cubique
65,513 corpus weight
- céleri
céleri
65,512 corpus weight
What this shows « cruelles » 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 | cruelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁy.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cruelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cruelles (IPA \kʁy.ɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,486 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de cruel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruelles, with forms such as "ccruelles", "creulles", and "crruelles". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cruels", "celles", "cruelle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is cruelles, spelled C-R-U-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de cruel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis s’enchaîne un chant de reconnaissance et de gratitude à la solidarité sororale, rythmé par le retour liquide des «larmes», par l’évocation d’expériences cruelles « cruenté, apprêté, le vil dol qui fait doloir l’âme… » et la purification qui en découle, après quoi il est possible de se livrer à la réflexion.
Je les aime cruelles; mais je ne veux pas qu’elles me cruélisent longuement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccruelles
- creulles
- crruelles
- cruelels
- crueles
- cruelless
- cruellse
- cruleles
- curelles
- rcuelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruelles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).