crabs
/kɹæbz/
"crabs" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crabs” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,113
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of crab
Corpus desk
Index EN-crabs · crabs · English
crabs · rank #17,113 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,113
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH conveyed
Nearest frequency peer: conveyed (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “crabs”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- controversi…
controversies
82,891 corpus weight
- conveyed
conveyed
82,889 corpus weight
- crabs
crabs
82,888 corpus weight
- cuddle
cuddle
82,887 corpus weight
- culprit
culprit
82,886 corpus weight
- Darius
Darius
82,885 corpus weight
What this shows “crabs” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crabs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹæbz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “crabs”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around crabs (IPA /kɹæbz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,113 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of crab".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for crabs, with forms such as "ccrabs", "crabbs", and "crabss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRS", "crap", "Cubs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 crabs, spelled C-R-A-B-S.
Definition
- 1plural of crab
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrabs
- crabbs
- crabss
- crasb
- crbas
- crrabs
- rcabs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crabs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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