cravacher
\kʁa.va.ʃe\
The verdict
“cravacher” is uncommon French (frequency #92,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,595
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper à coups de cravache.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cravacher · cravacher · French
cravacher · rank #92,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,595
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH craps
Nearest frequency peer: craps (-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 « cravacher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coutelier
coutelier
7,408 corpus weight
- craps
craps
7,407 corpus weight
- cravacher
cravacher
7,406 corpus weight
- Creusois
Creusois
7,405 corpus weight
- crevure
crevure
7,404 corpus weight
- croiserez
croiserez
7,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cravacher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cravacher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁa.va.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cravacher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cravacher is uncommon French at frequency #92,595 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁa.va.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cravacher, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cravacher, spelled C-R-A-V-A-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frapper à coups de cravache.
- 2Travailler dur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cravacher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du haut de sa selle, heurtant du coude le vieux conteur assis derrière lui, Toursène cravacha par deux fois Rahim au visage. La boule de plomb fixée au bout de la lanière déchira chacune des joues du batcha. Le sang jaillit tout de suite. Toursène s’éloigna à grand trot.
L’industrie tricolore a décidé de cravacher pour se placer dans le peloton de tête de la grande course vers la voiture électrique. Et cela se voit.
This word in other languages
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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