crâniennes
\kʁa.njɛn\
The verdict
“crâniennes” is uncommon French (frequency #81,932 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,932
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de crânien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craniennes · crâniennes · French
crâniennes · rank #81,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crouch
Nearest frequency peer: crouch (-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 « crâniennes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- creampie
creampie
18,072 corpus weight
- crouch
crouch
18,070 corpus weight
- crâniennes
crâniennes
18,069 corpus weight
- créationnis…
créationnistes
18,068 corpus weight
- cuisinant
cuisinant
18,067 corpus weight
- cuistots
cuistots
18,066 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crâniennes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crâniennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁa.njɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crâniennes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crâniennes is uncommon French at frequency #81,932 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁa.njɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de crânien.".
crâniennes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is crâniennes, spelled C-R-Â-N-I-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de crânien.
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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