crock
/kɹɒk/
"crock" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crock” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,794. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,794
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crock · crock · English
crock · rank #27,794 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,794
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crocker
Nearest frequency peer: crocker (+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 “crock”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cortisol
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72,210 corpus weight
- Coutinho
Coutinho
72,209 corpus weight
- crock
crock
72,207 corpus weight
- crocker
crocker
72,206 corpus weight
- curate
curate
72,205 corpus weight
- cuttings
cuttings
72,204 corpus weight
What this shows “crock” 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 | crock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹɒk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “crock”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crock (IPA /kɹɒk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,794 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crock, with forms such as "ccrock", "corck", and "crcok". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crop", "crow", "cuck", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *krokku, *krokkō, from Proto-Germani… The correct English form is crock, spelled C-R-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- 2A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- 3A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- 4An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- 5Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- 6A low stool.
- 7A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181, Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.
old crocks’ home
Etymology
From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *krokku, *krokkō, from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”). The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English crōg, crōh (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrock
- corck
- crcok
- crocck
- crockk
- crokc
- crrock
- rcock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crock - 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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