cremate
/ˈkɹimeɪt/
"cremate" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cremate” is uncommon English (frequency #82,200 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,200
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To burn something to ashes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cremate · cremate · English
cremate · rank #82,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,200
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH creepypasta
Nearest frequency peer: creepypasta (-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 “cremate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- crossman
crossman
17,798 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cremate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cremate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkɹimeɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cremate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cremate is uncommon English at frequency #82,200 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkɹimeɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for cremate in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1889; borrowed from Latin cremātus, perfect passive participle of cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). The correct English form is cremate, spelled C-R-E-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To burn something to ashes.
- 2To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cremate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I want to be cremated when I die.
“You didn’t bury Dad. You burned him.” “We cremated him, Benny. For humans, the word is cremated. And we chose to do that because that’s what they do in Japan.”
Etymology
First attested in 1889; borrowed from Latin cremātus, perfect passive participle of cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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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