crystal
\kʁis.tal\
The verdict
“crystal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,560
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe ancienne de cristal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crystal · crystal · French
crystal · rank #13,560 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,560
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruz
Nearest frequency peer: cruz (-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 « crystal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courriers
courriers
86,444 corpus weight
- croquis
croquis
86,443 corpus weight
- cruz
cruz
86,442 corpus weight
- crystal
crystal
86,441 corpus weight
- Créteil
Créteil
86,440 corpus weight
- death
death
86,438 corpus weight
What this shows « crystal » 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 | crystal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁis.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « crystal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around crystal (IPA \kʁis.tal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Orthographe ancienne de cristal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for crystal, with forms such as "ccrystal", "crrystal", and "crsytal". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cristal", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is crystal, spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Orthographe ancienne de cristal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crystal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est pas même nécessaire que le vaisseau qui tient la liqueur à crystalliser, soit dans la plus grande proximité du sel qui doit attirer ou repousser les crystaux prêts à se former.
Chaque coin de la rue m’offroit une belle fontaine, qui laissoit couler une eau pure & transparente : elle retomboit d’une nappe d’or, & son crystal donnoit envie d’y boire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrystal
- crrystal
- crsytal
- crysatl
- crysstal
- crystall
- crystla
- crysttal
- crytsal
- cryystal
- cyrstal
- rcystal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crystal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).