créeravscreverConfusable pair

Which to use

“créera” and “crever” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#25,271
“créera” frequency rank
#6,805
“crever” frequency rank
32076
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature créera crever
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de créer. S’ouvrir par un effort violent.

Where the eye mixes créera and crever

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
créera
6 ch
crever

Why the eye confuses créera with crever

A purely visual mix-up. créera (\kʁe.ʁa\) and crever (\kʁə.ve\) 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 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32076, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

créera is recorded at frequency rank #25,271, classified as averb, pronounced \kʁe.ʁa\. crever is at rank #6,805, tagged as averb, pronounced \kʁə.ve\.

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 32076, this pair ranks #299,703 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of créera vs crever

Shared letters: cer. Private to "créera": . Private to "crever": v.

"créera" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV  ·  "crever" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • creverccrever · cerver · creevr · creverr · crevre · crevver · crrever · crveer

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "créera" and "crever" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\kʁe.ʁa\ versus \kʁə.ve\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "créera" or "crever"?
"crever" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,805 in our French list, against #25,271 for "créera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "créera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crever" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #299,703 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "créera" and "crever" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "citera vs créera". 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 #299,703 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list