Australian crawl
"australian-crawl" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Australian crawl” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The front crawl swimming stroke.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Australian crawl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Australian crawl” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Australian crawl is 16 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The front crawl swimming stroke.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Australian crawl in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Australian crawl, spelled A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-A-N- -C-R-A-W-L.
Definition
- 1The front crawl swimming stroke.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Australian crawl”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-A-N- -C-R-A-W-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.