crystal clear

/\ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪɹ\/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

crystal clear is anFrenchadj. It means: Très évident, clair et net. Pronounced \ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪɹ\.

Key facts for crystal clear
PropertyValue
Headwordcrystal clear
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪɹ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

crystal clear is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for crystal clear is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪɹ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Très évident, clair et net.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for crystal clear in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 crystal clear, spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L- -C-L-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Très évident, clair et net.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crystal clear"?
"crystal clear" is spelled C-R-Y-S-T-A-L- -C-L-E-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪɹ\.
What does "crystal clear" mean?
As an adj, "crystal clear" means: Très évident, clair et net.
How do you pronounce "crystal clear"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crystal clear" is \ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪɹ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "crystal clear" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.