# crock

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɹɒk/ · frequency rank #27,794

## Definitions
1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
4. An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
5. Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
6. A low stool.
7. A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **crop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crop)
- **crow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crow)
- **cuck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-cuck)
- **cross** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-cross)
- **crowd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crowd)
- **crown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crown)
- **crops** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crops)
- **crows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crows)
- **crook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crook)
- **crore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crore)
- **croft** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-croft)
- **crony** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crony)
- **Croke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-croke)
- **crone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crone)
- **crotch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crotch)
- **crouch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crouch)
- **crooks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crooks)
- **crocker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crock-vs-crocker)
- **CRO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cro-vs-crock)
- **CoC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coc-vs-crock)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ccrock`, `corck`, `crcok`, `crocck`, `crockk`, `crokc`, `crrock`, `rcock`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/crock