créésvscreverTell them apart

Which to use

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

#6,489
“créés” frequency rank
#6,805
“crever” frequency rank
13294
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature créés crever
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de créer. S’ouvrir par un effort violent.

Where the eye mixes créés and crever

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. créés runs 5 letters (CCVVC) against crever's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
créés
6 ch
crever

Visual trap between créés and crever

A purely visual mix-up. créés (\kʁe.e\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13294, 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\. 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 13294, this pair ranks #401,598 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of créés vs crever

Shared letters: cr. Private to "créés": . Private to "crever": ev.

"créés" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC  ·  "crever" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "créés" and "crever" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\kʁe.e\ versus \kʁə.ve\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "créés" vs "crever" - which ranks higher?
"créés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,489 in our French list, against #6,805 for "crever". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "créés" 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 #401,598 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "créés" and "crever" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cakes vs créés". 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 #401,598 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