crush
\kʁœʃ\
The verdict
“crush” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,169
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attirance ; désir ; pulsion
Corpus desk
Index FR-crush · crush · French
crush · rank #24,169 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,169
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courez
Nearest frequency peer: courez (-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 « crush »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coulant
coulant
75,834 corpus weight
- courez
courez
75,833 corpus weight
- crush
crush
75,832 corpus weight
- cuisiniers
cuisiniers
75,831 corpus weight
- césars
césars
75,830 corpus weight
- dangerosité
dangerosité
75,829 corpus weight
What this shows « crush » 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 | crush |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁœʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crush »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crush (IPA \kʁœʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,169 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crush, with forms such as "ccrush", "crrush", and "crsuh". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cruz", "crut", "Cyrus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is crush, spelled C-R-U-S-H.
Definition
- 1Attirance ; désir ; pulsion
- 2Personne que l’on désire, personne par laquelle on est attiré.
- 3Message ou signe de séduction ou avances amoureuses en format numérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai pas honte d’avouer qu’à ce moment là, je l’ai trouvée attirante. Oui, c’est une fille, et moi aussi je suis une fille, mais on peut apprécier les belles choses. Et puis si Sara a le droit d’avoir un crush pour Mila Kunis, j’ai bien le droit d’avoir un crush pour Aiden.
Suis-je moi-même réellement amoureuse ? J’ai eu des crushs ici et là, mais rien de très intense. Rien d’aussi renversant que cette histoire !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrush
- crrush
- crsuh
- cruhs
- crushh
- crussh
- cursh
- rcush
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crush - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).