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How to spell crayon

Crayon is spelled C-R-A-Y-O-N.

hear itcray·on/'kreɪɑn/nounSounds

What it means: A colored stick used for drawing.

In a sentence: Sally used a yellow crayon to draw the sun.

Same family: crayons, crayoned, crayonning, colored-pencil, marker. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Crayon comes from French, where it originally meant a small stick of chalk or pencil. It goes back to the Latin word 'creta,' meaning chalk or clay.

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