# crayon

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/ · frequency rank #27,103

## Definitions
1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
3. A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
4. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

## Easily confused with
- **Croydon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crayon-vs-croydon)
- **cray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cray-vs-crayon)
- **canon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/canon-vs-crayon)
- **caron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/caron-vs-crayon)
- **canyon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/canyon-vs-crayon)
- **craven** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craven-vs-crayon)
- **Clayton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clayton-vs-crayon)

## Common misspellings (9)
`caryon`, `ccrayon`, `craoyn`, `crayno`, `crayonn`, `crayyon`, `crrayon`, `cryaon`, `rcayon`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/crayon