crap
/kɹæp/
"crap" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crap” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,613
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The husk of grain; chaff.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crap · crap · English
crap · rank #3,613 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH convinced
Nearest frequency peer: convinced (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “crap”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- congratulat…
congratulations
96,391 corpus weight
- contracts
contracts
96,390 corpus weight
- convinced
convinced
96,389 corpus weight
- crap
crap
96,388 corpus weight
- crystal
crystal
96,387 corpus weight
- dean
dean
96,386 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “crap” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crap |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹæp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crap” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around crap (IPA /kɹæp/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,613 among 43,570 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for crap, with forms such as "ccrap", "crapp", and "crpa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cry", "CSA", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence M… The correct English form is crap, spelled C-R-A-P.
Definition
- 1The husk of grain; chaff.
- 2Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
- 3Nonsense; something untrue.
- 4Feces.
- 5An act of defecation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
Etymology
From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrap
- crapp
- crpa
- crrap
- rcap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crap - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crap", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.