# croft

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɹɔf/ · frequency rank #23,227

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **CRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crt)
- **crop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crop)
- **crow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crow)
- **cross** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-cross)
- **crowd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crowd)
- **crown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crown)
- **crops** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crops)
- **crust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crust)
- **crows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crows)
- **crook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crook)
- **crore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crore)
- **crypt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crypt)
- **crony** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crony)
- **Croke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-croke)
- **crone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/croft-vs-crone)
- **cot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cot-vs-croft)
- **CRO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cro-vs-croft)
- **cost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cost-vs-croft)
- **coat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coat-vs-croft)
- **colt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colt-vs-croft)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ccroft`, `corft`, `crfot`, `crofft`, `croftt`, `crotf`, `crroft`, `rcoft`

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