how to pronounce cray

/kɹæɪ/

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cray is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of cray in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… it was cray was insane …”

meanings of cray

name:

A surname.
A short river in Greater London which flows into the River Darent.

noun:

A crayfish or lobster.

adjective:

Crazy.

cray frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word cray occurs in english on average 2.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cray can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cray can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;