crayonner
French, verb/kʁɛ.jɔ.ne/
crayonner is spelled C-R-A-Y-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crayonner is a French verb meaning “to sketch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dessiner avec du crayon”.
What does crayonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sketch
- 2
to scribble
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dessiner avec du crayon. 2. Dessiner sommairement ; marquer seulement les premiers traits. 3. Noter rapidement un texte sommaire ou un brouillon.
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 crayonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- crayonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crayonné participle past
- crayonne first-person indicative present
- crayonnes indicative present second-person
- crayonnons first-person indicative plural
- crayonnez indicative plural present
- crayonnent indicative plural present
- crayonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- crayonnait imperfect indicative singular
- crayonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- crayonniez imperfect indicative plural
- crayonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- crayonnai first-person historic indicative
- crayonnas historic indicative past
- crayonna historic indicative past
- crayonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crayonner?
- /kʁɛ.jɔ.ne/
- /kʁe.jɔ.ne/
- \kʁɛ.jɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crayonner in French?
crayonner appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).