crackerjack

/\ˈkɹæk.ə.ˌdʒæk\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

crackerjack is anFrenchadj. It means: Haut de gamme, haute qualité. Pronounced \ˈkɹæk.ə.ˌdʒæk\.

Key facts for crackerjack
PropertyValue
Headwordcrackerjack
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ˈkɹæk.ə.ˌdʒæk\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

crackerjack is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for crackerjack is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkɹæk.ə.ˌdʒæk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for crackerjack in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 crackerjack, spelled C-R-A-C-K-E-R-J-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
    Haut de gamme, haute qualité.
  2. 2
    Expert, à haut rendement.
  3. 3
    Qualifie les vêtements de l’uniforme bleu traditionnel des engagés de l’US Navy, en référence à Sailor Jack, mascotte qui illustre les paquets de bonbon de la marque Cracker Jack.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crackerjack"?
"crackerjack" is spelled C-R-A-C-K-E-R-J-A-C-K. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkɹæk.ə.ˌdʒæk\.
What does "crackerjack" mean?
As an adj, "crackerjack" means: Haut de gamme, haute qualité.
How do you pronounce "crackerjack"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crackerjack" is \ˈkɹæk.ə.ˌdʒæk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crackerjack" come from?
"crackerjack" 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.