crimped
/kɹɪmpt/
"crimped" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crimped” is uncommon English (frequency #65,023 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,023
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of crimp
Corpus desk
Index EN-crimped · crimped · English
crimped · rank #65,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,023
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Crean
Nearest frequency peer: Crean (-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 “crimped”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- craniofacial
craniofacial
34,981 corpus weight
- crappie
crappie
34,980 corpus weight
- Crean
Crean
34,979 corpus weight
- crimped
crimped
34,978 corpus weight
- crinkle
crinkle
34,977 corpus weight
- cropland
cropland
34,975 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crimped” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crimped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɹɪmpt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crimped” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crimped is uncommon English at frequency #65,023 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kɹɪmpt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of crimp".
crimped has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is crimped, spelled C-R-I-M-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of crimp
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crimped appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sharp bend had crimped the pipe so almost no water could get through.
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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