cribbing
/ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/
"cribbing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cribbing” is uncommon English (frequency #92,498 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,498
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of crib
Corpus desk
Index EN-cribbing · cribbing · English
cribbing · rank #92,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,498
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Croll
Nearest frequency peer: Croll (+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 “cribbing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- covetousness
covetousness
7,508 corpus weight
- Cradock
Cradock
7,505 corpus weight
- cribbing
cribbing
7,503 corpus weight
- Croll
Croll
7,502 corpus weight
- crys
crys
7,500 corpus weight
- CSW
CSW
7,499 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cribbing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cribbing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cribbing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cribbing is uncommon English at frequency #92,498 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of crib".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cribbing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is cribbing, spelled C-R-I-B-B-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of crib
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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