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crile

noun

crile is spelled C-R-I-L-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crile means “A small person or creature; a dwarf or runt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crile is criles.

How many letters and syllables are in crile?

Letters5: C-R-I-L-E
In writingabout once in every 39 million words; the 191,932nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is crile?

Crile appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

What rhymes with crile?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as crile.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: relic.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of crile

  • criles plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does crile mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandA small person or creature; a dwarf or runt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does crile come from?

An alteration of crowl.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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