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crafter

noun

crafter is a noun meaning “Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or as a small business” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-A-F-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of crafter is crafters.

What does crafter mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or as a small business

    There are a number of crafters around here who make quilts.

  2. 2

    Someone or something that crafts.

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

Forms of crafter

  • crafters plural

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

How common is crafter?

Crafter appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th 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).

Where does crafter come from?

From craft + -er.

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