couteau à cran
\ku.to a kʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“couteau à cran” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apocope de couteau à cran d’arrêt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-couteau-a-cran · couteau à cran · French
couteau à cran · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couteau à cran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ku.to a kʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « couteau à cran » en français
Rare enough to double-check
couteau à cran is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ku.to a kʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apocope de couteau à cran d’arrêt.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couteau à cran, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is couteau à cran, spelled C-O-U-T-E-A-U- -À- -C-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Apocope de couteau à cran d’arrêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how couteau à cran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le but de ses recherches me semblait être une mitraillette dans ma doublure de capote, le plan du 75, une correspondance complète avec Churchill, à la rigueur un simple couteau à cran.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.