craquage
\kʁa.kaʒ\
The verdict
“craquage” is uncommon French (frequency #51,989 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,989
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de craquer ou de faire craquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craquage · craquage · French
craquage · rank #51,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,989
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couver
Nearest frequency peer: couver (-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 « craquage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courons
courons
48,015 corpus weight
- couver
couver
48,013 corpus weight
- craquage
craquage
48,012 corpus weight
- crase
crase
48,011 corpus weight
- crasher
crasher
48,010 corpus weight
- cristalliser
cristalliser
48,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craquage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craquage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craquage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craquage is uncommon French at frequency #51,989 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁa.kaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for craquage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is craquage, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de craquer ou de faire craquer.
- 2Procédé thermique ou catalytique visant à accroître la proportion relative des composants légers d’une huile par modification de la structure chimique de ses constituants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how craquage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cause de cette bureaucratie et de l'explosion du nombre de chômeurs, « les agents sont en craquage, ils en perdent leur humanité, comme pourraient le faire des infirmiers dans un centre de soins palliatifs », explique la réalisatrice.
This word in other languages
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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