crated
/ˈkɹeɪtɪd/
"crated" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crated” is uncommon English (frequency #76,676 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,676
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - contained in a crate
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkɹeɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crated” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crated is uncommon English at frequency #76,676 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈkɹeɪtɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "contained in a crate".
crated has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is crated, spelled C-R-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1contained in a crate
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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Using “crated”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-A-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.