crayon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,833
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
crayon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Morceau de bois cylindrique fin contenant une mine en son centre, taillé afin d’obtenir une pointe à l’extrémité et qui permet de dessiner, colorier ou écrire avec la main. Pronounced \kʁɛ.jɔ̃\. It ranks #8,833 in French word frequency. Often confused with croyons and crayons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crayon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crayon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛ.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,833 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for crayon, with forms such as "caryon", "ccrayon", and "craoyn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "croyons", "crayons", "cran", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crayon, spelled C-R-A-Y-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morceau de bois cylindrique fin contenant une mine en son centre, taillé afin d’obtenir une pointe à l’extrémité et qui permet de dessiner, colorier ou écrire avec la main.
- 2Mine ou toute autre matière colorée propre à dessiner (sans sa gangue de bois).
- 3Petite barre de produit cosmétique ou pharmaceutique solide.
- 4Marne argileuse et sablonneuse.
- 5Tube de faible diamètre, fermé à ses deux extrémités, constituant du cœur d’un réacteur nucléaire quand il contient une matière fissile, fertile ou absorbante.
- 6Manière de dessiner ou manière dont une chose est dessinée.
- 7Tout dessin fait au crayon.
- 8Portrait.
- 9Esquisse, ébauche d’un tableau.
- 10Premier jet d'une idée.
- 11Jambe.
- 12(au pluriel) Main.
- 13Nom donné, par analogie d'aspect, à une forme galénique, généralement d'antibiotique, destinée à être insérée dans une plaie ou dans un tissu lors d'une opération chirurgicale.
- 14Crédit.
- 15Autres formes de crayons: Stylobille, feutres, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: caryon,ccrayon,craoyn,crayno,crayonn,crayyon,crrayon,cryaon,rcayon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crayon
Misspelling Variants of "crayon"
Frequency rank: #8,833 in French
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