Which to use
“crabe” and “craft” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,915
- “crabe” frequency rank
- #37,258
- “craft” frequency rank
- 55173
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | crabe | craft |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Crustacé décapode, à large carapace, dont on mange la chair. | Recette permettant de fabriquer un objet. |
Where the eye mixes crabe and craft
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: crabe vs craft
A purely visual mix-up. crabe (\kʁab\) and craft (\kʁaft\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55173, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
crabe is recorded at frequency rank #17,915, classified as anoun, pronounced \kʁab\. craft is at rank #37,258, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kʁaft\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 55173, this pair ranks #129,193 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of crabe vs craft
Shared letters: acr. Private to "crabe": be. Private to "craft": ft.
"crabe" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "craft" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "crabe" and "craft" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "crabe" or "craft" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "crabe" and "craft" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "crabe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "craft" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #129,193 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "crabe" and "craft" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "craft vs crau". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #129,193 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.