crabber
"crabber" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crabber” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who catches crabs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crabber · crabber · English
crabber · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crabber |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crabber” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crabber is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for crabber in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix). The correct English form is crabber, spelled C-R-A-B-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who catches crabs.
- 2A boat used for catching crabs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crabber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]
Etymology
From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
This word in other languages
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.