cropvsCROUSTell them apart

Which to use

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

#27,026
“crop” frequency rank
#23,502
“CROUS” frequency rank
50528
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature crop CROUS
Definition Redécoupage ou recadrage d'une photo ou d'une image virtuelle. Organisme chargé des œuvres sociales, de l’hébergement et de la restauration des étudiants.

Letter map: crop vs CROUS

Shared letters muted; letters that set crop and CROUS apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
crop
5 ch
CROUS

Spelling & dictionary notes on crop vs CROUS

crop and CROUS are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50528, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

crop is recorded at frequency rank #27,026, classified as anoun. CROUS is at rank #23,502, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kʁus\.

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 50528, this pair ranks #161,964 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of crop vs CROUS

Shared letters: cor. Private to "crop": p. Private to "CROUS": su.

"crop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "CROUS" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cropccrop · cropp · crpo · crrop · rcop
  • CROUSccrous · crosu · crouss · crrous · cruos · rcous

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "crop" and "CROUS" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "crop" vs "CROUS" - which ranks higher?
"CROUS" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,502 in our French list, against #27,026 for "crop". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "crop" and "CROUS". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "crop" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "CROUS" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #161,964 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "crop" and "CROUS" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ciro vs crop". 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 #161,964 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