crémaillère
French, noun/kʁe.ma.jɛʁ/
crémaillère is spelled C-R-É-M-A-I-L-L-È-R-E (11 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,485th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crémaillère is a French feminine noun meaning “trammel; a type of hook from which a cooking pot can be suspended over a hearth fire at different heights as needed for the right cooking…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tige métallique munie de crans qu’on suspendait dans les cheminées de cuisine, dans les fermes, pour y…”.
What does crémaillère mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetrammel; a type of hook from which a cooking pot can be suspended over a hearth fire at different heights as needed for the right cooking temperature
- 2
femininerack, rack-and-pinion
- 3
femininecrémaillère (indented or zigzagging line of entrenchment used in fortification)
- 4
feminineellipsis of pendaison de crémaillère; housewarming
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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. 2. Pièce de bois, de métal ou de plastique, munie de crans, servant à supporter, accrocher, arrêter, élever, abaisser. 3. Pièce mécanique permettant un entraînement longitudinal ; associée a une roue dentée (pignon), elle permet de transformer un mouvement de rotation en translation, ou l’inverse. 4. Système à pignon et crémaillère.
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 crémaillère
- crémaillères plural
- cramaillère alternative archaic
- cramaillier alternative archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crémaillère?
- /kʁe.ma.jɛʁ/
- \kʁe.ma.jɛʁ\
- [kʁe.ma.jɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crémaillère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crémaillère in French?
crémaillère appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).