Craon
\kʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Craon” is uncommon French (frequency #59,917 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,917
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Mayenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craon · Craon · French
Craon · rank #59,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,917
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crampon
Nearest frequency peer: crampon (-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 « Craon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Corine
Corine
40,089 corpus weight
- corsets
corsets
40,088 corpus weight
- crampon
crampon
40,085 corpus weight
- Craon
Craon
40,084 corpus weight
- create
create
40,083 corpus weight
- Crespin
Crespin
40,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Craon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Craon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Craon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Craon is uncommon French at frequency #59,917 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Craon in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Craon, spelled C-R-A-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Mayenne.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Vienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Craon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La combinaison aon se prononce an nasal, a, on nasal, et a-on. Elle a le son nasal an dans faon (petit d’une biche, etc.), Laon (ville), paon (oiseau), Saint-Haon (bourg). —On prononce fan, lan, pan, çain-tan. Raon-L’Étape (ville) et Craon (v. du départ. de la Mayenne) se prononcent ran-létap, kran.
J’allai voir Marthe que je trouvai en train de nourrir de beaux spécimens de la race craonnaise : pas ses enfants, non, précisons, mais de jeunes cochons dits courards, nés d’un de ces nobles verrats qui, bien plus que Volney — auteur de considérations sur la ruine des empires — ont fait, avec les courses, la renommée de Craon.
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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