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creasy

/ˈkɹisi/adjective

creasy is spelled C-R-E-A-S-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, creasy means “Full of creases” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in creasy?

Letters6: C-R-E-A-S-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 60,838th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is creasy?

Creasy appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce creasy?

  • UK /ˈkɹiːsi/
  • US /ˈkɹisi/

Creasy has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with creasy?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as creasy from its last stressed vowel (/isi/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: scarey.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of creasy

  • creasier comparative
  • creasiest superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does creasy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Full of creases.

  2. 2

    Denoting any of several related species of edible, commonly wild, greens, especially upland cress or winter cress.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Creasy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Full of creases:

LanguageWords
Spanishcon pliegues, arrugado

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does creasy come from?

From crease + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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