crated
/ˈkɹeɪtɪd/
"crated" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crated” is uncommon English (frequency #76,676 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,676
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - contained in a crate
Corpus desk
Index EN-crated · crated · English
crated · rank #76,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,676
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH creepily
Nearest frequency peer: creepily (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “crated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cosmetically
cosmetically
23,330 corpus weight
- counterexam…
counterexample
23,327 corpus weight
- crated
crated
23,325 corpus weight
- creepily
creepily
23,324 corpus weight
- croaking
croaking
23,323 corpus weight
- Cronus
Cronus
23,321 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “crated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crated is uncommon English at frequency #76,676 among 5,599 “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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).