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craft

UK /ˈkɹɑːft/noun, verb

craft is spelled C-R-A-F-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, craft means “Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of craft is crafts.

How many letters and syllables are in craft?

Letters5: C-R-A-F-T
Syllables1
In writing20 times per million words; the 4,302nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is craft?

Craft appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd 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 craft?

  • UK /ˈkɹɑːft/
  • Australia /ˈkɹäːft/
  • Australia /ˈkɹɐ̞ːft/

Craft has one syllable.

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

What rhymes with craft?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as craft from its last stressed vowel (/ɑft/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of craft

  • crafts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • crafting participle, present
  • crafted participle, past

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

What does craft mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteStrength; power; might; force .

  2. 2

    Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

  3. 3

    Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .

  4. 4

    obsoleteOccult art, magic .

  5. 5

    obsoleteA work or product of art .

  6. 6

    obsoleteHandmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .

  7. 7

    obsoleteA device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .

  8. 8

    obsoleteLearning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .

verb

  1. 1

    To make by hand and with much skill.

  2. 2

    To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

    state crafting; the process of crafting global policing

  3. 3

    To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

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

How do you abbreviate craft?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of craft: CDT.

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

Craft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanHandwerk (skill in one's work), Schlauheit, Durchtriebenheit, Gerissenheit (cunning, shrewdness), Gilde (members of a trade collectively), handgemacht (to make by hand)
Portuguesehabilidade, perícia (skill in one's work), engenhosidade (cunning, shrewdness), arte, ofício (skilled practice of practical occupation), nave (vehicle designed for navigation)
Spanishpericia (skill in one's work), labrar, hacer a mano, confeccionar (to make by hand), oficio (skilled practice of practical occupation), nave (vehicle designed for navigation)
Frenchruse (cunning, shrewdness), métier (skilled practice of practical occupation), nef (vehicle designed for navigation), crafter (to combine different items to form a new one)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does craft come from?

Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.

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

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