crémaillère
\kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“crémaillère” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #28,507 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #28,507
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tige métallique munie de crans qu’on suspendait dans les cheminées de cuisine, dans les fermes, pour y accrocher au-dessus du feu chaudrons, marmites ou autres récipients.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crémaillère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crémaillère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crémaillère is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,507 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for crémaillère, with forms such as "ccrémaillère", "cremaillere", and "crméaillère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 crémaillère, spelled C-R-É-M-A-I-L-L-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tige métallique munie de crans qu’on suspendait dans les cheminées de cuisine, dans les fermes, pour y accrocher au-dessus du feu chaudrons, marmites ou autres récipients.
- 2Pièce de bois, de métal ou de plastique, munie de crans, servant à supporter, accrocher, arrêter, élever, abaisser.
- 3Pièce mécanique permettant un entraînement longitudinal. Associée a une roue dentée (pignon), permet de transformer un mouvement de rotation en translation, ou l’inverse.
- 4Système à pignon et crémaillère.
- 5Dispositif utilisé pour intercepter des documents dans une boîte aux lettres.
- 6Régime dans lequel les parités de change sont susceptibles d'être révisées par une succession de modifications de faible amplitude.
- 7Pendaison de crémaillère : fête organisée lors d’un emménagement.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrémaillère,cremaillere,crméaillère,crrémaillère,créamillère,crémaillrèe,crémaillèer,crémaillèrre,crémailèlre,crémailère,crémalilère,crémiallère,crémmaillère,cérmaillère,rcémaillère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crémaillère - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “crémaillère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-É-M-A-I-L-L-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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