crawbob

noun

"crawbob" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“crawbob” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An Australian species of freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor; a yabby.

Corpus desk

Index EN-crawbob · crawbob · English

crawbob · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for crawbob
PropertyValue
Headwordcrawbob
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “crawbob” in English

crawbobsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crawbob is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Australian species of freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor; a yabby.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crawbob, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: Alteration of crawdad, influenced by bob. The correct English form is crawbob, spelled C-R-A-W-B-O-B.

Definition

  1. 1
    An Australian species of freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor; a yabby.

Etymology

Alteration of crawdad, influenced by bob.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crawbob"?
"crawbob" is spelled C-R-A-W-B-O-B.
What does "crawbob" mean?
As a noun, "crawbob" means: An Australian species of freshwater crayfish, Cherax destructor; a yabby.
What is the origin of the word "crawbob"?
Alteration of crawdad, influenced by bob. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list