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crapola

/kɹæˈpoʊlə/noun, adjective

crapola is spelled C-R-A-P-O-L-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crapola means “Items or material of poor quality or little importance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crapola?

Letters7: C-R-A-P-O-L-A
In writingabout once in every 29 million words; the 163,711th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 crapola?

Crapola appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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 crapola?

  • US /kɹæˈpoʊlə/
  • UK /kɹæˈpəʊlə/

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

What rhymes with crapola?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as crapola from its last stressed vowel (/oʊlə/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: caporal.

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).

What does crapola mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangItems or material of poor quality or little importance.

    Near-synonyms: garbage, junk, rubbish, nonsense

adjective

  1. 1

    slangFeeling sick or bad.

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

Where does crapola come from?

From crap + -ola; dating back to the 1940s and influenced by brand names containing -ola (e.g. Shinola, Granola, Crayola).

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

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