# crake

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɹeɪk/ · frequency rank #99,135

## Definitions
1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

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