croft
/kɹɔft/noun, verb
croft is spelled C-R-O-F-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, croft means “An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of croft is crofts.
How many letters and syllables are in croft?
| Letters | 5: C-R-O-F-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 23,253rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 croft?
Croft appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd 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).
How do you pronounce croft?
- UK /kɹɒft/
- US /kɹɔft/
- US /kɹɑft/
Croft has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-croft.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with croft?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as croft from its last stressed vowel (/ɔft/):
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 croft
- crofts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- crofting participle, present
- crofted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does croft mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...
- 2
archaicAn underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
- 3
archaicA cave or cavern.
- 4
archaicA carafe.
verb
- 1
To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
- 2
archaicTo place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Croft in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enclosed piece of land:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | coto |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does croft come from?
The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).