Crawley
The verdict
“Crawley” is uncommon French (frequency #61,430 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,430
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crawley · Crawley · French
Crawley · rank #61,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,430
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH creusait
Nearest frequency peer: creusait (+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 « Crawley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CPS
CPS
38,574 corpus weight
- cradle
cradle
38,573 corpus weight
- Crawley
Crawley
38,571 corpus weight
- creusait
creusait
38,570 corpus weight
- croiraient
croiraient
38,569 corpus weight
- cruches
cruches
38,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Crawley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crawley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Crawley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Crawley is uncommon French at frequency #61,430 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille anglais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Crawley in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Crawley, spelled C-R-A-W-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Crawley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tableau fut alors vendu à un banquier de la City, sir Jonathan Crawley, qui, lui, vécut fort longtemps, mais fut obligé de se séparer de L’Homme à la dague parce qu’il était ruiné.
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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