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crampy

/ˈkɹæmpi/adjective

crampy is spelled C-R-A-M-P-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, crampy means “Characterised by cramp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crampy?

Letters6: C-R-A-M-P-Y
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is crampy?

Crampy appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 crampy?

  • /ˈkɹæmpi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-crampy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of crampy

  • crampier comparative
  • crampiest superlative

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

What does crampy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Characterised by cramp.

    The patient reported a crampy ache.

  2. 2

    Cramped; offering little room to move.

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

Where does crampy come from?

From cramp + -y.

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

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