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crabmeat

noun

crabmeat is spelled C-R-A-B-M-E-A-T: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crabmeat means “The meat of a crab” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crabmeat?

Letters8: C-R-A-B-M-E-A-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is crabmeat?

Crabmeat appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce crabmeat?

    Crabmeat has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of crabmeat

    • crab meat

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does crabmeat mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      The meat of a crab.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does crabmeat come from?

    From crab + meat.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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