crachat

\kʁa.ʃa\

/\kʁa.ʃa\/ noun

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The verdict

“crachat” is uncommon French (frequency #50,146 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,146
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Salive ou pituite ou toute autre mucosité qu’on projette par la bouche.

Corpus desk

Index FR-crachat · crachat · French

crachat · rank #50,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,146
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH coutellerie

Nearest frequency peer: coutellerie (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « crachat »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crachat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for crachat
PropertyValue
Headwordcrachat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁa.ʃa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,146
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « crachat » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).crachattombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « coutellerie » (#50,145), « craques » (#50,147), « courue » (#50,144). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « crachat » est au #50,146. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crachat is uncommon French at frequency #50,146 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁa.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crachat, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crachat, spelled C-R-A-C-H-A-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Salive ou pituite ou toute autre mucosité qu’on projette par la bouche.
  2. 2
    Salive ou pituite ou toute autre mucosité qu’on projette par la bouche.
  3. 3
    Projection.
  4. 4
    Plaque qui distingue les grades supérieurs dans les ordres de chevalerie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how crachat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Crachats muqueux, sanguinolents, etc.
  2. Il se noierait dans son crachat, dans un crachat, se dit d’un homme qui est embarrassé dans les plus petites choses.

Synonyms

crachementexpectorationglaireglaviothuitremollardglume

This word in other languages

spit(English)esputo(Español)Spucke(Deutsch)

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crachat"?
"crachat" is spelled C-R-A-C-H-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁa.ʃa\.
What does "crachat" mean?
As a noun, "crachat" means: Salive ou pituite ou toute autre mucosité qu’on projette par la bouche.
How do you pronounce "crachat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crachat" is \kʁa.ʃa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crachat" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crachat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

craques#50,147criquet#50,148couplés#50,143croches#50,149

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list