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

#6,489
“créés” frequency rank
#4,478
“crier” frequency rank
10967
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature créés crier
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de créer. Jeter un ou plusieurs cris.

Where the eye mixes créés and crier

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

5 ch
créés
5 ch
crier

Look-alike desk: créés vs crier

A purely visual mix-up. créés (\kʁe.e\) and crier (\kʁi.je\) 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 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10967, 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\. crier is at rank #4,478, tagged as averb, pronounced \kʁi.je\.

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 10967, this pair ranks #410,972 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of créés vs crier

Shared letters: cr. Private to "créés": . Private to "crier": ei.

"créés" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC  ·  "crier" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • crierccrier · creir · crierr · crire · crrier · rcier

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "créés" and "crier" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\kʁe.e\ versus \kʁi.je\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "créés" or "crier"?
"crier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,478 in our French list, against #6,489 for "créés". 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 "créés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crier" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #410,972 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "créés" and "crier" 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 #410,972 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