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crop

/kɹɑp/noun, verb

crop is spelled C-R-O-P: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). 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” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crop is crops.

How many letters and syllables are in crop?

Letters4: C-R-O-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 crop?

Crop appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 crop?

  • UK /kɹɒp/
  • British /kɹɔp/
  • US /kɹɑp/

Crop has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-crop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with crop?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as crop from its last stressed vowel (/ɑp/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: corp, proc.

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 crop

  • crops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • cropping participle, present
  • cropped participle, past

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

What does crop mean?

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

noun

  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.

    The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?

  2. 2

    The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

    It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!

  3. 3

    A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.

    The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

  4. 4

    A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

    The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.

  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.

verb

  1. 1

    To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

  2. 2

    To mow, reap or gather.

  3. 3

    To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

  4. 4

    To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

  5. 5

    To yield harvest.

  6. 6

    To cause to bear a crop.

    to crop a field

  7. 7

    To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

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

Crop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanFeldfrucht, Erntegut, Getreide, Gemüse, (landwirtschaftliche) Kultur (plant grown for any economic purpose), Ernte (natural production for a specific year)
Portuguesecultura, cultivo (plant grown for any economic purpose), colheita, safra (natural production for a specific year), açoite, chibata (entire short whip; riding crop – see also…)
Spanishcultivo (plant grown for any economic purpose), cosecha, agosto (natural production for a specific year), fusta (entire short whip; riding crop – see also…), rapado (short haircut), buche (part of bird's or other animal's alimentary…)
Frenchrécolte (natural production for a specific year), cravache (entire short whip; riding crop – see also…), jabot (part of bird's or other animal's alimentary…), rogner, découper (remove outer parts of (a photograph or image))

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 crop come from?

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English 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”). Doublet of group.

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

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