craques
\kʁak\
The verdict
“craques” is uncommon French (frequency #50,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,147
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de craque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-craques · craques · French
craques · rank #50,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,147
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crachat
Nearest frequency peer: crachat (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « craques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- courue
courue
49,857 corpus weight
- coutellerie
coutellerie
49,856 corpus weight
- crachat
crachat
49,855 corpus weight
- craques
craques
49,854 corpus weight
- criquet
criquet
49,853 corpus weight
- croches
croches
49,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « craques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « craques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
craques is uncommon French at frequency #50,147 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de craque.".
Zero misspellings are on record for craques in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is craques, spelled C-R-A-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de craque.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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