crevasse
/kɹəˈvæs/
"crevasse" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crevasse” is uncommon English (frequency #61,393 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,393
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crevasse · crevasse · English
crevasse · rank #61,393 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,393
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Crayola
Nearest frequency peer: Crayola (-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 “crevasse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cooldown
cooldown
38,613 corpus weight
- Coraline
Coraline
38,612 corpus weight
- Crayola
Crayola
38,609 corpus weight
- crevasse
crevasse
38,608 corpus weight
- crooner
crooner
38,607 corpus weight
- crosstalk
crosstalk
38,606 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crevasse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crevasse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹəˈvæs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crevasse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crevasse is uncommon English at frequency #61,393 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɹəˈvæs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for crevasse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice. The correct English form is crevasse, spelled C-R-E-V-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- 2A breach in a canal or river bank.
- 3Any cleft or fissure.
- 4A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crevasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
[…] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
Etymology
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
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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