Which to use
“crosse” and “crosses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,332
- “crosse” frequency rank
- #47,268
- “crosses” frequency rank
- 63600
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | crosse | crosses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Bâton pastoral d’évêque ou d’abbé, dont l’extrémité supérieure se recourbe en volute. | Pluriel de crosse. |
Same sound, different letters: crosse vs crosses
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. crosse runs 6 letters (CCVCCV) against crosses's 7 (CCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - crosse and crosses
This is the hard kind. crosse and crosses are pronounced identically (\kʁɔs\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “crosse” sits inside “crosses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63600, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
crosse is recorded at frequency rank #16,332, classified as anoun, pronounced \kʁɔs\. crosses is at rank #47,268, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kʁɔs\.
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 63600, this pair ranks #81,172 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of crosse vs crosses
Shared letters: ceors. Private to "crosse": -. Private to "crosses": -.
"crosse" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV · "crosses" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "crosse" and "crosses" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "crosse" vs "crosses" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "crosse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "crosses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #81,172 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "crosse" and "crosses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "causses vs crosses". 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 #81,172 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.