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Is crayon a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word crayon is a Scrabble US word. The word crayon is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is crayon a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word crayon is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3R1A1Y4O1N1

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6-letter words (1 found)

CRAYON,

5-letter words (11 found)

ACORN,CARNY,CARON,CORNY,CRONY,CYANO,NARCO,ORACY,RACON,RAYON,YARCO,

4-letter words (18 found)

ACRO,ARCO,CANY,CARN,CONY,CORN,CORY,CRAN,CRAY,CRON,CYAN,NARC,NARY,OARY,ORCA,RACY,ROAN,YARN,

3-letter words (24 found)

ANY,ARC,ARY,CAN,CAR,CAY,CON,COR,COY,CRY,NAY,NOR,NOY,OAR,OCA,ONY,ORA,ORC,RAN,RAY,ROC,RYA,YAR,YON,

2-letter words (11 found)

AN,AR,AY,NA,NO,NY,ON,OR,OY,YA,YO,

You can make 65 words from crayon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crayon

crayon

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: krāʹŏn
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ɒ̃/, /ˈkɹeɪ.ən/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹeɪ.ɑn/; also /ˈkɹeɪ.ɔn/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
  • (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹæn/, [ˈkɹeən]
  • (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹaʊn/, [ˈkɹɛɔn], [ˈkɹæɔn]
  • Rhymes: -eɪɒn, -eɪən, -æn, -aʊn

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

  1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
    Hyponym: Conté
  2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
    Synonyms: pencil crayon (Canada), colouring pencil (UK)
  3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
  4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • cretaceous

Translations

Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.

References

  • “crayon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

  • crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • acyron

French

Etymology

From craie (“chalk”) +‎ -on (diminutive), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁɛ.jɔ̃/, /kʁe.jɔ̃/

Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)

  1. pencil
  2. (colloquial) pen
  3. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick

Descendants

  • → English: crayon
  • → Esperanto: krajono
  • → German: Crayon
  • → Greek: κραγιόν (kragión)
  • → Moore: keryõ
  • → Romanian: creion
  • → Spanish: crayón, clarión

Further reading

  • “crayon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org