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crome

noun, verb

crome is spelled C-R-O-M-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crome means “A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crome is cromes.

How many letters and syllables are in crome?

Letters5: C-R-O-M-E
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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 crome?

Crome appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).

What rhymes with crome?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as crome.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: comer.

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 crome

  • cromes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • croming participle, present
  • cromed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does crome mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKA garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.

  2. 2

    plural of croma (a form of croma)

  3. 3

    Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”).

verb

  1. 1

    UKTo use a crome.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does crome come from?

From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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