crash course
"crash-course" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crash course” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crash-course · crash course · English
crash course · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crash course |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crash course” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crash course is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.".
crash course doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is crash course, spelled C-R-A-S-H- -C-O-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crash course appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.
This word in other languages
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.