crâner
\kʁɑ.ne\
The verdict
“crâner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire le crâne, être crâne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craner · crâner · French
crâner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crâner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁɑ.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “crâner” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
crâner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁɑ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire le crâne, être crâne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crâner in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crâner, spelled C-R-Â-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire le crâne, être crâne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crâner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il crânait, les poches pleines de pèze. Tu penses si je zieutais !
2 octobre 42 – Pourquoi crâné-je quand vient mon heure de me lever et de sourire ? Je ne sais pas. Cela me tient depuis longtemps cette maladie de crâner devant le professeur.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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