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Detailed reference entry for the English word "crop", 4-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "crop" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "crop" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.

crop is aEnglishnoun. It means: A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. Pronounced /kɹɒp/. It ranks #5,591 in English word frequency. Often confused with cup and cry.

Key facts for crop
PropertyValue
Headwordcrop
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kɹɒp/
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,591
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of crop in English word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for crop is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɹɒp/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,591 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for crop, with forms such as "ccrop", "corp", and "cropp". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cry", "CRT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *krupp… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is crop, spelled C-R-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  2. 2
    The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
  3. 3
    A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  4. 4
    A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
  5. 5
    The lashing end of a whip.
  6. 6
    An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
  7. 7
    A rocky outcrop.
  8. 8
    The act of cropping.
  9. 9
    A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
  10. 10
    A short haircut.
  11. 11
    A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
  12. 12
    The foliate part of a finial.
  13. 13
    The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  14. 14
    Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  15. 15
    An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  16. 16
    An entire oxhide.
  17. 17
    Marijuana.

Etymology

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccrop,corp,cropp,crpo,crrop,rcop

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crop

Misspelling Variants of "crop"

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Misspelling Variants of "crop"

Frequency rank: #5,591 in English

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crop"?
"crop" is spelled C-R-O-P. The IPA pronunciation is /kɹɒp/.
What does "crop" mean?
As a noun, "crop" means: A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
What words are commonly confused with "crop"?
"crop" is commonly confused with "cup", "cry", "CRT". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "crop"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "crop" is /kɹɒp/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "crop"?
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germa... See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.