créésvscrêpeTell them apart

Quick tell: créés is a verb, crêpe is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“créés” is a verb and “crêpe” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,489
“créés” frequency rank
#19,798
“crêpe” frequency rank
26287
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature créés crêpe
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de créer. Étoffe claire, légère et comme frisée, faite de laine fine ou de soie crue et gommée.

Where the eye mixes créés and crêpe

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

5 ch
créés
5 ch
crêpe

Look-alike desk: créés vs crêpe

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: créés is \kʁe.e\ while crêpe is \kʁɛp\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26287, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

créés is recorded at frequency rank #6,489, classified as averb, pronounced \kʁe.e\. crêpe is at rank #19,798, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kʁɛp\.

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 26287, this pair ranks #335,987 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of créés vs crêpe

Shared letters: cr. Private to "créés": . Private to "crêpe": epê.

"créés" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC  ·  "crêpe" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "créés" and "crêpe" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "créés" is a verb and "crêpe" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "créés" or "crêpe" show up more?
"créés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,489 in our French list, against #19,798 for "crêpe". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "créés" and "crêpe" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "créés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crêpe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #335,987 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "créés" and "crêpe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cese vs crêpe". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #335,987 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