Crayola
"crayola" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Crayola” is uncommon English (frequency #61,392 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,392
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brand of art supplies from the Crayola company, especially crayons.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crayola · Crayola · English
Crayola · rank #61,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,392
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crevasse
Nearest frequency peer: crevasse (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Crayola”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cooldown
cooldown
38,613 corpus weight
- Coraline
Coraline
38,612 corpus weight
- Crayola
Crayola
38,609 corpus weight
- crevasse
crevasse
38,608 corpus weight
- crooner
crooner
38,607 corpus weight
- crosstalk
crosstalk
38,606 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Crayola” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crayola |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Crayola” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Crayola is uncommon English at frequency #61,392 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brand of art supplies from the Crayola company, especially crayons.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Crayola, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined by Alice (Stead) Binney, the wife of the founder of the company. From French craie (“chalk”) + oleaginous; cf. -ola. The correct English form is Crayola, spelled C-R-A-Y-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1A brand of art supplies from the Crayola company, especially crayons.
Etymology
Coined by Alice (Stead) Binney, the wife of the founder of the company. From French craie (“chalk”) + oleaginous; cf. -ola.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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