# Crawley

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈkɹɔːli/ · frequency rank #24,129

## Definitions
1. A place in England:
2. A place in England:
3. A place in England:
4. A place in England:
5. An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, named after Crawley, West Sussex.
6. A western suburb of the City of Perth, Western Australia, taken from the surname.
7. A surname.

## Etymology
From Old English crāwe (“crow”), genitive plural, crāwan + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

## Easily confused with
- **Crowley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crawley-vs-crowley)
- **crawl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crawl-vs-crawley)
- **cradle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cradle-vs-crawley)
- **Cowley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cowley-vs-crawley)
- **Charley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/charley-vs-crawley)
- **crawler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crawler-vs-crawley)

## Common misspellings (11)
`carwley`, `ccrawley`, `cralwey`, `crawely`, `crawleyy`, `crawlley`, `crawlye`, `crawwley`, `crrawley`, `crwaley`, `rcawley`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/crawley