Which to use
“crick” and “crock” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,944
- “crick” frequency rank
- #27,794
- “crock” frequency rank
- 64738
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | crick | crock |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. | A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. |
Where the eye mixes crick and crock
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. crick and crock follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: crick vs crock
A purely visual mix-up. crick (/kɹɪk/) and crock (/kɹɒk/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - i in “crick” becomes o in “crock”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64738, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
crick is recorded at frequency rank #36,944, classified as anoun, pronounced /kɹɪk/. crock is at rank #27,794, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kɹɒk/.
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 64738, this pair ranks #76,205 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of crick vs crock
Shared letters: ckr. Private to "crick": i. Private to "crock": o.
"crick" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "crock" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "crick" vs "crock" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "crick" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "crock" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #76,205 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "crick" and "crock" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "crick vs Crist". 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 #76,205 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.