Craponne
\kʁa.pɔn\
The verdict
“Craponne” is uncommon French (frequency #90,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,588
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française située dans la métropole de Lyon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craponne · Craponne · French
Craponne · rank #90,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,588
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cram
Nearest frequency peer: cram (-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 « Craponne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courbures
courbures
9,416 corpus weight
- cram
cram
9,414 corpus weight
- Craponne
Craponne
9,413 corpus weight
- crissent
crissent
9,412 corpus weight
- critiquables
critiquables
9,411 corpus weight
- crochetage
crochetage
9,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Craponne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Craponne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.pɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Craponne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Craponne is uncommon French at frequency #90,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \kʁa.pɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Craponne in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 Craponne, spelled C-R-A-P-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française située dans la métropole de Lyon.
- 2Forme abrégée de Craponne-sur-Arzon, commune de Haute-Loire.
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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