crayon

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crayon

/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒn/ UK
[ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒ̃] UK
/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ən/ UK, uncommon
/ˈkɹɛj.ɔn/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈkɹɛj.ən/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɑn/ US
/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɑn/ US, cot caught merger
/ˈkɹæn/ Midwestern US, Northeastern, US
[ˈkɹɛə̯n ~ ˈkɹeə̯n] Midwestern US, Northeastern, US
/ˈkɹaʊ̯n/ Midwestern US, New Jersey, Philadelphia
[ˈkɹɛɔ̯n] Midwestern US, New Jersey, Philadelphia
[ˈkɹæɔ̯n] Midwestern US, New Jersey, Philadelphia
/ˈkɹæɪ̯.ɔn/ Australia, New Zealand
/ˈkɹeː.än/
/ˈkɹɛ.jän/

Rhymes with -eɪɒn, -eɪən, -æn, -aʊn

Where it comes from

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

noun crayons

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing. But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.
obsolete A colored pencil, a colouring pencil Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
Similar: pencil crayon, colouring pencil
dated A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines. But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
dated A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

verb crayons · crayoning · crayonning · crayoned · crayonned

ambitransitive To draw with a crayon.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: wax crayon, marker, stylus, pencil, eyeliner, conte, pen, child, hippocampal, hippocampus, drawing slate, crayon board, chalk, charcoal, coloring pencil, paintstick

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Every language

noun colored chalk or wax

Español	creyón, crayón, crayola, cera, pintura de cera
한국어	크레파스 keurepaseu, 크레용 keureyong
日本語	クレヨン kureyon
中文	蠟筆 /蜡笔 làbǐ
Português	pastel, giz de cera, lápis de cera
Français	pastel, craie de cire
Deutsch	Wachsmalstift
Italiano	pastello
Ελληνικά	κηρομπογιά kirompogiá
Русский	цветно́й каранда́ш cvetnój karandáš, пасте́ль pastɛ́lʹ
Tiếng Việt	viết chì màu, bút sáp

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@misc{crayon_2026,
  title = {crayon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crayon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}