crachin
\kʁa.ʃɛ̃\
The verdict
“crachin” is uncommon French (frequency #85,603 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,603
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruine ; petite pluie fine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crachin · crachin · French
crachin · rank #85,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,603
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courvoisier
Nearest frequency peer: courvoisier (-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 « crachin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cossus
cossus
14,401 corpus weight
- couchsurfing
couchsurfing
14,400 corpus weight
- courvoisier
courvoisier
14,399 corpus weight
- crachin
crachin
14,398 corpus weight
- cracra
cracra
14,397 corpus weight
- criarde
criarde
14,395 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crachin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crachin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.ʃɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crachin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crachin is uncommon French at frequency #85,603 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁa.ʃɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bruine ; petite pluie fine.".
crachin has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crachin, spelled C-R-A-C-H-I-N.
Definition
- 1Bruine ; petite pluie fine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crachin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pluie giclait par les joints à demi arrachés des portières – cet air de ne pas y toucher du crachin qui, sur la distance, trempe aussi sûrement qu’une averse.
Malgré l’heure et le crachin, des bandes infatigables montaient et descendaient la rue Crébillon, braillant des chansons à boire et à forniquer.
This word in other languages
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.
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