Which to use
“crack” and “krach” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,942
- “crack” frequency rank
- #35,116
- “krach” frequency rank
- 47058
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | crack | krach |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Cheval de course performant ayant remporté de nombreuses victoires. | Désastre boursier, chute soudaine de la bourse. |
Same sound, different letters: crack vs krach
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters. crack and krach follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - crack and krach
This is the hard kind. crack and krach are pronounced identically (\kʁak\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47058, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
crack is recorded at frequency rank #11,942, classified as anoun, pronounced \kʁak\. krach is at rank #35,116, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kʁak\.
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 47058, this pair ranks #189,984 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of crack vs krach
Shared letters: ackr. Private to "crack": -. Private to "krach": h.
"crack" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "krach" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "crack" and "krach" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "crack" or "krach" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "crack" / "krach". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "crack" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "krach" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #189,984 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "crack" and "krach" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "crac vs krach". 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 #189,984 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.