Which to use
“crop” and “cup” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,591
- “crop” frequency rank
- #805
- “cup” frequency rank
- 6396
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | crop | cup |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. | A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle. |
Where the eye mixes crop and cup
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: crop vs cup
A purely visual mix-up. crop (/kɹɒp/) and cup (/kʌp/) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6396, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
crop is recorded at frequency rank #5,591, classified as anoun, pronounced /kɹɒp/. cup is at rank #805, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kʌp/.
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 6396, this pair ranks #511,593 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of crop vs cup
Shared letters: cp. Private to "crop": or. Private to "cup": u.
"crop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "cup" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- crop ← ccrop · corp · cropp · crpo · crrop · rcop
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "crop" for "cup" ever safe?
In ordinary English text, does "crop" or "cup" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "crop" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cup" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #511,593 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "crop" and "cup" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Croat vs crop". 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 #511,593 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.