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creepy

creep·y/ˈkɹipi/adjective

creepy is spelled C-R-E-E-P-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables (creep·y). It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, creepy means “Moving by creeping along” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in creepy?

Letters6: C-R-E-E-P-Y
Syllables2: creep·y
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,674th 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; 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 creepy?

Creepy appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 creepy?

  • UK /ˈkɹiːpi/
  • US /ˈkɹipi/

Creepy has 2 syllables, split creep·y in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-creepy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with creepy?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as creepy from its last stressed vowel (/ipi/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: crepey.

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 creepy

  • creepier comparative
  • creepiest superlative

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

What does creepy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Moving by creeping along.

    creepy-crawlies

  2. 2

    informalProducing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.

    creepy ghosts

  3. 3

    informalCausing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.

  4. 4

    informalCausing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.

    That creepy old man keeps leering at me!

  5. 5

    informalFeeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.

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

Creepy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germankriechend (moving by creeping along), gruselig, schaurig, schauerlich, unheimlich (producing a fearful sensation), abstoßend (causing discomfort or repulsion)
Frenchangoissant, flippant (producing a fearful sensation)
Portuguesehorripilante (producing a fearful sensation)
Spanishespeluznante, escalofriante, dar miedito (producing a fearful sensation), inquietante, incomodador, incomodante (causing discomfort or repulsion)

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 creepy come from?

From creep + -y.

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

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