craptabulous

adj

"craptabulous" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“craptabulous” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extremely awful.

Corpus desk

Index EN-craptabulous · craptabulous · English

craptabulous · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for craptabulous
PropertyValue
Headwordcraptabulous
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “craptabulous” in English

craptabulousranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

craptabulous is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Extremely awful.".

No misspelling variants are generated for craptabulous in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of crap + fantabulous. The correct English form is craptabulous, spelled C-R-A-P-T-A-B-U-L-O-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Extremely awful.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how craptabulous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. So Kenny stayed back and said notliing, and the dude took his issues and limped up to the register, and life went on, every bit as craptabulous as before, the whole thing a nonevent, a not-amazing nonstory.
  2. Same problem that plagues nearly all amateur video - craptabulous sound.

Etymology

Blend of crap + fantabulous.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "craptabulous"?
"craptabulous" is spelled C-R-A-P-T-A-B-U-L-O-U-S.
What does "craptabulous" mean?
As an adjective, "craptabulous" means: Extremely awful.
What is the origin of the word "craptabulous"?
Blend of crap + fantabulous. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list