crawlies
"crawlies" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crawlies” is uncommon English (frequency #82,198 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,198
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fear, anxiety.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crawlies · crawlies · English
crawlies · rank #82,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,198
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crasher
Nearest frequency peer: crasher (-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 “crawlies”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crapper
crapper
17,805 corpus weight
- crasher
crasher
17,804 corpus weight
- crawlies
crawlies
17,803 corpus weight
- creepypasta
creepypasta
17,802 corpus weight
- cremate
cremate
17,801 corpus weight
- Crom
Crom
17,799 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crawlies” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crawlies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crawlies” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crawlies is uncommon English at frequency #82,198 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fear, anxiety.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crawlies, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From creepy-crawlies. The correct English form is crawlies, spelled C-R-A-W-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Fear, anxiety.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crawlies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Street light? Was I coming up in somebody's basement? Whatever it was, I was all for light. Trapped is bad. Trapped and blind gives me the crawlies.
Etymology
From creepy-crawlies.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).