crâniens
\kʁa.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“crâniens” is uncommon French (frequency #53,241 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,241
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de crânien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craniens · crâniens · French
crâniens · rank #53,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,241
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crisp
Nearest frequency peer: crisp (-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 « crâniens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crins
crins
46,763 corpus weight
- criques
criques
46,762 corpus weight
- crisp
crisp
46,761 corpus weight
- crâniens
crâniens
46,760 corpus weight
- crédités
crédités
46,759 corpus weight
- crépusculai…
crépusculaire
46,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crâniens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crâniens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁa.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crâniens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crâniens is uncommon French at frequency #53,241 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁa.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de crânien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crâniens in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 crâniens, spelled C-R-Â-N-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin 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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