craquelot
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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craquelot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Hareng saur, peu salé et à conservation limitée. Pronounced \kʁak.lɔ\.
| 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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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for craquelot is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁak.lɔ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for craquelot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is craquelot, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hareng saur, peu salé et à conservation limitée.
- 2Crustacés venant de subir leur mue, qu’on emploie comme appâts.
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