créésvscroisTell them apart

Which to use

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

#6,489
“créés” frequency rank
#333
“crois” frequency rank
6822
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature créés crois
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de créer. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de croire.

Where the eye mixes créés and crois

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
créés
5 ch
crois

Visual trap between créés and crois

A purely visual mix-up. créés (\kʁe.e\) and crois (\kʁwa\) 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 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6822, 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\. crois is at rank #333, tagged as averb, pronounced \kʁwa\.

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 6822, this pair ranks #425,120 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of créés vs crois

Shared letters: crs. Private to "créés": é. Private to "crois": io.

"créés" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC  ·  "crois" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • croisccrois · coris · crios · croiss · crosi · crrois · rcois

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "créés" for "crois" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\kʁe.e\ versus \kʁwa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "créés" or "crois"?
"crois" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #333 in our French list, against #6,489 for "créés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "créés" and "crois" 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 "crois" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #425,120 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "créés" and "crois" 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 #425,120 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