Cracow
/ˈkɹækaʊ/
"cracow" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cracow” is uncommon English (frequency #55,355 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,355
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cracow |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹækaʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cracow” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Cracow is uncommon English at frequency #55,355 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkɹækaʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cracow in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English crakou, crawcow. The correct English form is Cracow, spelled C-R-A-C-O-W.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
Etymology
From Middle English crakou, crawcow.
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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Using “Cracow”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-A-C-O-W - 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.