creel
/kɹiːl/
"creel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“creel” is uncommon English (frequency #59,988 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,988
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
| 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) |
Where “creel” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
creel is uncommon English at frequency #59,988 among 43,570 “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.
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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Using “creel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-E-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.