crachoir
French, noun/kʁa.ʃwaʁ/
crachoir is spelled C-R-A-C-H-O-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crachoir is a French masculine noun meaning “spittoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de vase rempli de sable, de cendre, ou de sciure de bois, qu’on met dans un appartement ou dans un…”.
What does crachoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespittoon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de vase rempli de sable, de cendre, ou de sciure de bois, qu’on met dans un appartement ou dans un édifice public pour y cracher. 2. Tube en métal avec couvercle que l’on porte avec soi pour y cracher.
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 crachoir
- crachoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crachoir?
- /kʁa.ʃwaʁ/
- \kʁa.ʃwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crachoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crachoir in French?
crachoir appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).