craquer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,144
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
craquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Produire un bruit sec par le frottement, par l’éclatement ou par la désorganisation de ses éléments. Pronounced \kʁa.ke\. It ranks #9,144 in French word frequency. Often confused with croque and crique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁa.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for craquer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁa.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,144 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for craquer, with forms such as "carquer", "ccraquer", and "craqeur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "croque", "crique", "croquer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 craquer, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Produire un bruit sec par le frottement, par l’éclatement ou par la désorganisation de ses éléments.
- 2Donner des signes de ruine imminente ; ne pas supporter une pression trop importante, en particulier nerveuse.
- 3(Transitif indirect) Être irrésistiblement attiré, attirée.
- 4Se dit du cri de la cigogne, de la grue et de la cigale.
- 5Traiter un produit pétrolier par craquage.
- 6Forcer quelque chose avec violence.
- 7Supprimer une ou plusieurs protections dans un système informatique.
- 8Se fissurer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: carquer,ccraquer,craqeur,craqquer,craquerr,craqure,crauqer,crqauer,crraquer,rcaquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for craquer
Misspelling Variants of "craquer"
Frequency rank: #9,144 in French
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