Crayola
"crayola" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Crayola” is uncommon English (frequency #61,392 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,392
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A brand of art supplies from the Crayola company, especially crayons.
| 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) |
Where “Crayola” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Crayola is uncommon English at frequency #61,392 among 43,570 “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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Using “Crayola”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-A-Y-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.