crasis
/ˈkɹeɪsɪs/
"crasis" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crasis” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crasis · crasis · English
crasis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | crasis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crasis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crasis is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɹeɪsɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
crasis has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”). The correct English form is crasis, spelled C-R-A-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
- 2A mixture or combination.
- 3The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crasis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).
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.