crawl
French, noun/kʁol/
crawl is spelled C-R-A-W-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,211th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crawl is a French masculine noun meaning “crawl (swimming stroke)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nage en position ventrale associant des battements de jambes dans le sens vertical et des mouvements de bras…”.
What does crawl mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrawl (swimming stroke)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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. 2. Message ou générique défilant verticalement ou horizontalement sur fond neutre ou en superposition d’images statiques ou animées.
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 crawl
- crawls plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crawl?
- /kʁol/
- \kʁɔl\
- \kʁol\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crawl
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crawl in French?
crawl appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).