crack

/\kʁak\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,942

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

crack is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cheval de course performant ayant remporté de nombreuses victoires. Pronounced \kʁak\. Often confused with CRC and cran.

Key facts for crack
PropertyValue
Headwordcrack
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kʁak\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,942
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of crack in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for crack is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁak\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,942 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for crack, with forms such as "carck", "ccrack", and "cracck". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRC", "cran", "croc", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crack, spelled C-R-A-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cheval de course performant ayant remporté de nombreuses victoires.
  2. 2
    Champion.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: carck,ccrack,cracck,crackk,crakc,crcak,crrack,rcack

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crack

Misspelling Variants of "crack"

carck5ccrack6cracck6crackk6crakc5crcak5crrack6rcack5
Misspelling Variants of "crack"

Frequency rank: #11,942 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crack"?
"crack" is spelled C-R-A-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is \kʁak\.
What does "crack" mean?
As a noun, "crack" means: Cheval de course performant ayant remporté de nombreuses victoires.
What words are commonly confused with "crack"?
"crack" is commonly confused with "CRC", "cran", "croc". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crack"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crack" is \kʁak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crack" come from?
"crack" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.