cribs
/kɹɪbz/
"cribs" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cribs” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,067
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of crib
Corpus desk
Index EN-cribs · cribs · English
cribs · rank #41,067 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,067
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH creases
Nearest frequency peer: creases (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cribs”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cour
cour
58,937 corpus weight
- creamer
creamer
58,936 corpus weight
- creases
creases
58,935 corpus weight
- cribs
cribs
58,934 corpus weight
- CSE
CSE
58,932 corpus weight
- curveball
curveball
58,931 corpus weight
What this shows “cribs” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cribs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹɪbz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cribs”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cribs (IPA /kɹɪbz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,067 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of crib".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cribs, with forms such as "ccribs", "cirbs", and "crbis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRS", "Cubs", "Cris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 cribs, spelled C-R-I-B-S.
Definition
- 1plural of crib
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccribs
- cirbs
- crbis
- cribbs
- cribss
- crisb
- crribs
- rcibs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cribs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).