CramervscrimeConfusable pair

Quick tell: Cramer is a name, crime is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Cramer” is a name and “crime” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,493
“Cramer” frequency rank
#1,362
“crime” frequency rank
32855
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Cramer crime
Definition A surname. A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

Letter map: Cramer vs crime

Shared letters muted; letters that set Cramer and crime apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
Cramer
5 ch
crime

Part-of-speech tell for Cramer / crime

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Cramer is aname and crimeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32855, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Cramer is recorded at frequency rank #31,493, classified as aname. crime is at rank #1,362, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kɹaɪm/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 32855, this pair ranks #334,334 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Cramer vs crime

Shared letters: cemr. Private to "Cramer": a. Private to "crime": i.

"Cramer" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "crime" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Cramercarmer · ccramer · craemr · cramerr · crammer · cramre · crmaer · crramer
  • crimeccrime · cirme · criem · crimme · crmie · crrime · rcime

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Cramer" for "crime" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Cramer" is a name and "crime" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Cramer" vs "crime" - which ranks higher?
"crime" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,362 in our English list, against #31,493 for "Cramer". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Cramer" and "crime".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Cramer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crime" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #334,334 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Cramer" and "crime" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Cramer vs Croker". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #334,334 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list