crewer

noun

"crewer" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“crewer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of a crew, as on a ship or spacecraft

Corpus desk

Index EN-crewer · crewer · English

crewer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for crewer
PropertyValue
Headwordcrewer
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “crewer” in English

crewerranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crewer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crewer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From crew + -er. The correct English form is crewer, spelled C-R-E-W-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A member of a crew, as on a ship or spacecraft
  2. 2
    A person in charge of locating the technical crew for a media production
  3. 3
    A competitive rower

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how crewer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. This part of the ship is for crewers only.
  2. For much of the crew, a regional crewer will be contracted to provide camera operators, A2s, […]

Etymology

From crew + -er.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crewer"?
"crewer" is spelled C-R-E-W-E-R.
What does "crewer" mean?
As a noun, "crewer" means: A member of a crew, as on a ship or spacecraft
What is the origin of the word "crewer"?
From crew + -er. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list