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crap

/kɹæp/noun, verb, adjective, interjection

crap is spelled C-R-A-P: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a vulgar noun, crap means “Something worthless or of poor quality; junk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crap is craps.

How many letters and syllables are in crap?

Letters4: C-R-A-P
Syllables1
In writing25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 crap?

Crap appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 crap?

  • /kɹæp/

Crap has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-crap.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with crap?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as crap.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: carp, parc, prac.

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 crap

  • craps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • crapping participle, present
  • crapped participle, past
  • crapper comparative
  • crappest superlative
  • crappy US

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

What does crap mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteThe husk of grain; chaff.

  2. 2

    slangvulgarSomething worthless or of poor quality; junk.

    The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.

  3. 3

    slangvulgarNonsense; something untrue.

    The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

  4. 4

    slangvulgarFeces.

    I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.

  5. 5

    slangvulgarAn act of defecation.

    I have to take a crap.

  6. 6

    A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.

  7. 7

    Attributive form of craps. (a form of craps)

verb

  1. 1

    slangvulgarTo defecate.

    That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.

  2. 2

    slangvulgarTo defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

    He almost crapped his pants from fright.

  3. 3

    IndiaslangvulgarTo bullshit.

    Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialvulgarOf poor quality.

    I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.

interjection

  1. 1

    slangvulgarExpression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.

    Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!

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

Crap in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsaleté, ordure, crotte, merde, bouse, foutaise (something of poor quality)
GermanMist (something of poor quality), Unsinn (nonsense), Scheiße, Kacke (feces)
Portugueseporcaria (something of poor quality), besteira (nonsense), bosta, merda, caca (feces), porcaria! (expression of worry, disgust)
Spanishbasura, porquería, mierda (something of poor quality), patraña, estupidez, pendejada (nonsense)

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 crap come from?

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.

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

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