crayeux
\kʁɛ.jø\
The verdict
“crayeux” is uncommon French (frequency #88,497 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,497
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de la nature de la craie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crayeux · crayeux · French
crayeux · rank #88,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,497
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coursera
Nearest frequency peer: coursera (-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 « crayeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coréalisé
coréalisé
11,508 corpus weight
- coterie
coterie
11,507 corpus weight
- coursera
coursera
11,505 corpus weight
- crayeux
crayeux
11,504 corpus weight
- croisiérist…
croisiéristes
11,502 corpus weight
- croton
croton
11,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crayeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crayeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.jø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crayeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crayeux is uncommon French at frequency #88,497 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kʁɛ.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crayeux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is crayeux, spelled C-R-A-Y-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est de la nature de la craie.
- 2Qui rappelle la texture et la couleur de la craie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crayeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ruisseau des Barres naît à Sévigny-Waleppe sur la craie marneuse et aboutit à l'Aisne en aval de Balham. Il coule aussi sur la craie. Ses alluvions, de grève crayeuse, sont recouvertes de limon jaune à Saint-Germainmont et à Juzancourt.
Confirmant les observations déjà réalisées sur la coupe de Ménil-Lépinois, les blocs crayeux, en surface comme sur toute la profondeur de pénétration du gel (10 à 12 cm), sont entourés d'une enveloppe de glace de cryosuccion.
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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