crawl
\kʁɔl\
The verdict
“crawl” is uncommon French (frequency #53,235 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,235
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nage en position ventrale associant des battements de jambes dans le sens vertical et des mouvements de bras circulaires, verticaux et alternés dans le sens de la nage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crawl · crawl · French
crawl · rank #53,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,235
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CPP
Nearest frequency peer: CPP (-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 « crawl »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- corre
corre
46,769 corpus weight
- Coudray
Coudray
46,768 corpus weight
- CPP
CPP
46,767 corpus weight
- crawl
crawl
46,766 corpus weight
- cric
cric
46,765 corpus weight
- criminaliser
criminaliser
46,764 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crawl » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crawl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crawl » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crawl is uncommon French at frequency #53,235 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crawl, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is crawl, spelled C-R-A-W-L.
Definition
- 1Nage en position ventrale associant des battements de jambes dans le sens vertical et des mouvements de bras circulaires, verticaux et alternés dans le sens de la nage.
- 2Message ou générique défilant verticalement ou horizontalement sur fond neutre ou en superposition d’images statiques ou animées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crawl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’instructeur américain, M. Griser, a obtenu là des résultats absolument remarquables qui démontrent, une fois de plus, la facilité avec laquelle on peut enseigner le crawl américain aux débutants qui n’ont jamais pratiqué de nages désuètes comme la brasse ou le trudgeon.
Didier, as-tu été à la piscine avec ces dames pour leur montrer ton crawl impeccable ?
Synonyms
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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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