crachat
French, noun
crachat is spelled C-R-A-C-H-A-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,148th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crachat is a French masculine noun meaning “spit; spittle, sputum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, crachât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of cracher”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Salive ou pituite ou toute autre mucosité qu’on projette par la bouche”.
What does crachat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespit; spittle, sputum
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of cracher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Salive ou pituite ou toute autre mucosité qu’on projette par la bouche. 2. Marque de mépris ou d'affront. 3. Projection. 4. Plaque qui distingue les grades supérieurs dans les ordres de chevalerie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crachat
- crachats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to crachat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crachat in French?
crachat appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).