Which to use
“crise” and “curie” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,109
- “crise” frequency rank
- #16,106
- “curie” frequency rank
- 17215
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | crise | curie |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Subdivision de la tribu chez les Romains. |
Where the eye mixes crise and curie
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: crise vs curie
A purely visual mix-up. crise (\kʁiz\) and curie (\ky.ʁi\) 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 17215, 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\. curie is at rank #16,106, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ky.ʁi\.
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 17215, this pair ranks #384,244 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of crise vs curie
Shared letters: ceir. Private to "crise": s. Private to "curie": u.
"crise" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "curie" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "crise" and "curie" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "crise" or "curie" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "crise" and "curie" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "crise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "curie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #384,244 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "crise" and "curie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "curage vs curie". 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 #384,244 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.