# craft

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɹɑːft/ · frequency rank #4,293

## Definitions
1. Strength; power; might; force .
2. Intellectual power; skill; art.
3. Intellectual power; skill; art.
4. Intellectual power; skill; art.
5. A work or product of art .
6. A work or product of art .
7. A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
8. Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
9. Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
10. A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
11. A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
12. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
13. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
14. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
15. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
16. Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

## Etymology
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.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).

## Easily confused with
- **CRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crt)
- **crap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crap)
- **cram** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-cram)
- **cray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-cray)
- **crit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crit)
- **crag** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crag)
- **crazy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crazy)
- **crash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crash)
- **Craig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-craig)
- **crane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crane)
- **crawl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crawl)
- **crust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crust)
- **crest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crest)
- **crank** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crank)
- **crate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crate)
- **crave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crave)
- **craze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-craze)
- **croft** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-croft)
- **crept** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crept)
- **crypt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/craft-vs-crypt)

## Common misspellings (8)
`carft`, `ccraft`, `crafft`, `craftt`, `cratf`, `crfat`, `crraft`, `rcaft`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/craft