crooner
/ˈkɹuːn.ə(ɹ)/
"crooner" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crooner” is uncommon English (frequency #61,394 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,394
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crooner · crooner · English
crooner · rank #61,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,394
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crevasse
Nearest frequency peer: crevasse (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “crooner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Coraline
Coraline
38,612 corpus weight
- Crayola
Crayola
38,609 corpus weight
- crevasse
crevasse
38,608 corpus weight
- crooner
crooner
38,607 corpus weight
- crosstalk
crosstalk
38,606 corpus weight
- cussed
cussed
38,603 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crooner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crooner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹuːn.ə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crooner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crooner is uncommon English at frequency #61,394 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɹuːn.ə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crooner, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From croon + -er. The correct English form is crooner, spelled C-R-O-O-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crooner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.
“But, you know, crooners gonna croon.”
Etymology
From croon + -er.
This word in other languages
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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