crappie
/ˈkɹɒpi/
"crappie" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crappie” is uncommon English (frequency #65,021 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,021
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis, both with silvery-white with black speckles and prized as gamefish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crappie · crappie · English
crappie · rank #65,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,021
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH craniofacial
Nearest frequency peer: craniofacial (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “crappie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cranfield
Cranfield
34,982 corpus weight
- craniofacial
craniofacial
34,981 corpus weight
- crappie
crappie
34,980 corpus weight
- Crean
Crean
34,979 corpus weight
- crimped
crimped
34,978 corpus weight
- crinkle
crinkle
34,977 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crappie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crappie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹɒpi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crappie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crappie is uncommon English at frequency #65,021 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɹɒpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis, both with silvery-white with black speckles and prized as gamefish.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crappie, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French crapet, crapet-soleil (“sunfish”). The correct English form is crappie, spelled C-R-A-P-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis, both with silvery-white with black speckles and prized as gamefish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crappie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If it's crappies you like, they're biting in 45-degree water.
Etymology
Borrowed from French crapet, crapet-soleil (“sunfish”).
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.
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