crut

\kʁy\

/\kʁy\/ verb

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The verdict

“crut” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,968
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crut · crut · French

crut · rank #30,968 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,968
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH croiseur

Nearest frequency peer: croiseur (-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 « crut »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « crut » 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).

crut vs Ct
25% similar
crut vs cul
50% similar
crut vs cup
50% similar

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

Key facts for crut
PropertyValue
Headwordcrut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kʁy\
Letters4
Frequency rank#30,968
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crut »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).crutse 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 « croiseur » (#30,967), « cultivent » (#30,969), « croises » (#30,966). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crut » est au #30,968. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around crut (IPA \kʁy\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,968 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for crut, with forms such as "ccrut", "crrut", and "crtu". 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, "Ct", "cul", "cup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crut, spelled C-R-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Devant l’attitude arrogante du tiers-état assemblé, le roi crut à tort, mais il put croire, qu’il y avait parti pris de le déroiter, sinon en lui enlevant sa couronne, du moins en le dépouillant de telle ou telle de ses prérogatives à laquelle il n’était pas tenu de renoncer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccrut
  • crrut
  • crtu
  • crutt
  • curt
  • rcut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccrut1crrut1crtu2crutt1curt2rcut2
Edit distance from "crut"

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 "crut"?
"crut" is spelled C-R-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁy\.
What does "crut" mean?
As a verb, "crut" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de croire.
What words are commonly confused with "crut"?
"crut" is commonly confused with "Ct", "cul", "cup". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crut" is \kʁy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crut" come from?
"crut" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

daim#30,971dina#30,976flex#31,032gram#31,051

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

cousu6 variantsdouma6 variantsclear6 variantsclame6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list