craquelin
\kʁa.klɛ̃\
The verdict
“craquelin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de gâteau qui craque sous les dents lorsqu’on le mange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craquelin · craquelin · French
craquelin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craquelin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁa.klɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
craquelin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁa.klɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
craquelin has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 craquelin, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de gâteau qui craque sous les dents lorsqu’on le mange.
- 2Pain au lait avec des pépites de sucre sur le dessus.
- 3Variété de biscuit sec anglais.
- 4Crabe qui vient de muer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how craquelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Personnellement, le dimanche matin avant la messe, je ne mangeais ni pain grillé, ni biscotte, ni madeleine, mais un craquelin. Je parle ici du craquelin breton, spécialité de Saint-Malo, qui a la particularité de n’avoir aucun goût, à part celui que lui donnent le beurre et la confiture. L’intérêt du craquelin est tout autre: il est, disons, théologique.…
Le « biscuit soda » et la « saltine » sont les termes fautifs utilisés dans le langage populaire. Le craquelin, salé ou non, a une structure caractéristique en feuillets. On trouve aussi sur le marché des craquelins apéritifs […].
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.