crevice
/ˈkɹɛvɪs/noun, verb
crevice is spelled C-R-E-V-I-C-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “crevasse vs crevice” about 2,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, crevice means “A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crevice is crevices.
How many letters and syllables are in crevice?
| Letters | 7: C-R-E-V-I-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is crevice?
Crevice appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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 crevice?
- UK /ˈkɹɛvɪs/
Crevice has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-crevice.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with crevice
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of crevice
- crevices plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- crevicing participle, present
- creviced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crevice mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- 2
slangThe vagina.
verb
- 1
To crack; to flaw.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crevice in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense narrow crack:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fissure f fente, anfractuosité |
| German | Spalt, Spalte, Felsspalt, Felsritze, Mauerspalt, Mauerritze |
| Portuguese | fenda, fresta |
| Spanish | hendidura, hendedura, resquebrajadura |
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 crevice come from?
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).