creel
/kɹiːl/
"creel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“creel” is uncommon English (frequency #59,988 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,988
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
Corpus desk
Index EN-creel · creel · English
creel · rank #59,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,988
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH countermeasure
Nearest frequency peer: countermeasure (-3 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 “creel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- corse
corse
40,018 corpus weight
- coulomb
coulomb
40,017 corpus weight
- countermeas…
countermeasure
40,016 corpus weight
- creel
creel
40,013 corpus weight
- Cueto
Cueto
40,010 corpus weight
- Culpeper
Culpeper
40,009 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “creel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹiːl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “creel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
creel is uncommon English at frequency #59,988 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɹiːl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for creel, 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula. The correct English form is creel, spelled C-R-E-E-L.
Definition
- 1A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
- 2A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
- 3A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
- 4A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how creel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Return with a creel of trout for supper.
Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh, Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers
Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
This word in other languages
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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