craignions
\kʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃\
The verdict
“craignions” is uncommon French (frequency #93,643 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,643
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de craindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craignions · craignions · French
craignions · rank #93,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,643
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CPIE
Nearest frequency peer: CPIE (-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 « craignions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- counting
counting
6,362 corpus weight
- coutelas
coutelas
6,361 corpus weight
- CPIE
CPIE
6,359 corpus weight
- craignions
craignions
6,358 corpus weight
- crater
crater
6,357 corpus weight
- crux
crux
6,353 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craignions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craignions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craignions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craignions is uncommon French at frequency #93,643 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
craignions doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is craignions, spelled C-R-A-I-G-N-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de craindre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel 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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