Crawley

name

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Crawley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Crawley
PropertyValue
HeadwordCrawley
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#61,430
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Crawley » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Crawleytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « creusait » (#61,431), « cradle » (#61,428), « croiraient » (#61,432). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « Crawley » est au #61,430. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Nom de famille anglais.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Crawley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Crawley"?
"Crawley" is spelled C-R-A-W-L-E-Y.
What does "Crawley" mean?
As a proper noun, "Crawley" means: Nom de famille anglais.
What language does "Crawley" come from?
"Crawley" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Crawley", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list