craquelot
\kʁak.lɔ\
The verdict
“craquelot” 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) - Hareng saur, peu salé et à conservation limitée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craquelot · craquelot · French
craquelot · 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 | craquelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁak.lɔ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
craquelot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁak.lɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for craquelot, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is craquelot, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Hareng saur, peu salé et à conservation limitée.
- 2Crustacés venant de subir leur mue, qu’on emploie comme appâts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how craquelot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… moins salé, c'est le craquelot, bouffi ou bloater;
Coresse moins grande pour faire des Harengs bouffis ou Craquelots : toutes ces opérations, qui différent peu de celles qu’on fait pour le Hareng saur, s’exécutent par des femmes, qu’on nomme Craquelotières.
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.