crate
/kɹeɪt/noun, verb
crate is spelled C-R-A-T-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crate means “A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crate is crates.
How many letters and syllables are in crate?
| Letters | 5: C-R-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,613th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 crate?
Crate appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th 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 crate?
- /kɹeɪt/
Crate has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-crate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with crate?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as crate.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: trace, react, cater, carte, creat, caret, acter.
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).
Forms of crate
- crates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- crating participle, present
- crated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- 2
derogatoryslangA vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- 3
In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
verb
- 1
To put into a crate.
- 2
To keep in a crate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense box or basket:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | caisse, cageot |
| German | Kiste, Kasten |
| Portuguese | engradado |
| Spanish | jaulón, jaba, guacal, huacal, cajón, canil |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does crate come from?
From Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gretH- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).