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crabtree

noun

crabtree is a noun meaning “Alternative form of crab tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-A-B-T-R-E-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of crabtree is crabtrees.

What does crabtree mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of crab tree.

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

How do you pronounce crabtree?

    Crabtree 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 crabtree

    • crabtrees plural

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

    How common is crabtree?

    Crabtree appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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).

    Words people confuse with crabtree

    Also written: crab-tree (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).