craquement
French, noun/kʁak.mɑ̃/
craquement is spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 49,558th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Craquement is a French masculine noun meaning “crack, cracking, click (sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bruit que font certains corps en craquant”.
What does craquement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrack, cracking, click (sound)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bruit que font certains corps en craquant. 2. Cri de la cigogne, de la grue, de la cigale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of craquement
- craquements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce craquement?
- /kʁak.mɑ̃/
- \kʁak.mɑ̃\
- [kʁak.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to craquement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is craquement in French?
craquement appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).