craigne
\kʁɛɲ\
The verdict
“craigne” is uncommon French (frequency #75,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,560
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de craindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craigne · craigne · French
craigne · rank #75,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,560
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coy
Nearest frequency peer: coy (-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 « craigne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coupage
coupage
24,446 corpus weight
- courraient
courraient
24,445 corpus weight
- coy
coy
24,442 corpus weight
- craigne
craigne
24,441 corpus weight
- crieront
crieront
24,440 corpus weight
- croquante
croquante
24,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craigne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craigne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craigne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craigne is uncommon French at frequency #75,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁɛɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for craigne, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is craigne, spelled C-R-A-I-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de craindre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de craindre.
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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