crisevsCrosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: crise is a noun, Cros is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“crise” is a noun and “Cros” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,109
“crise” frequency rank
#31,428
“Cros” frequency rank
32537
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature crise Cros
Definition Changement en bien ou en mal qui survient dans le cours d’une maladie et s’annonce par quelques phénomènes particuliers, comme une excrétion abondante, une hémorragie considérable, des sueurs, un dépôt dans les urines, etc. Nom de famille.

Letter map: crise vs Cros

Shared letters muted; letters that set crise and Cros apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
crise
4 ch
Cros

Role in the sentence - crise and Cros

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: crise is anoun and Crosaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32537, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

crise is recorded at frequency rank #1,109, classified as anoun, pronounced \kʁiz\. Cros is at rank #31,428, tagged as aname.

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 32537, this pair ranks #296,624 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of crise vs Cros

Shared letters: crs. Private to "crise": ei. Private to "Cros": o.

"crise" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV  ·  "Cros" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • criseccrise · cirse · crrise · crsie · rcise
  • Crosccros · crros · crso · rcos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "crise" and "Cros" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "crise" is a noun and "Cros" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "crise" or "Cros" show up more?
"crise" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,109 in our French list, against #31,428 for "Cros". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "crise" and "Cros". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "crise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Cros" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #296,624 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "crise" and "Cros" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ciro vs Cros". 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 #296,624 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