crake
/ˈkɹeɪk/noun, verb
crake is spelled C-R-A-K-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crake means “Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crake is crakes.
How many letters and syllables are in crake?
| Letters | 5: C-R-A-K-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 99,289th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 crake?
Crake appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th 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 crake?
- /ˈkɹeɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-crake.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with crake?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as crake.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: creak, acker.
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 crake
- crakes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- craking participle, present
- craked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crake mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
- 2
obsoleteA crack; a boast.
verb
- 1
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
- 2
obsoleteTo boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of crake.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crake in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of several birds, of the family Rallidae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | polluela |
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 crake come from?
From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).