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crazing

/ˈkɹeɪzɪŋ/noun, verb

crazing is spelled C-R-A-Z-I-N-G: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crazing means “A covering of fine cracks on a hard smooth surface such as a glazed object or car exterior” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crazing is crazings.

How many letters and syllables are in crazing?

Letters7: C-R-A-Z-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 20 million words; the 134,976th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is crazing?

Crazing appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce crazing?

  • /ˈkɹeɪzɪŋ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of crazing

  • crazings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does crazing mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A covering of fine cracks on a hard smooth surface such as a glazed object or car exterior.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of craze (a form of craze)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Crazing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a covering of fine cracks on a hard surface such as a glaze on pottery:

LanguageWords
Frenchfaïençage

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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