crop up

verb

"crop-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“crop up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.

Corpus desk

Index EN-crop-up · crop up · English

crop up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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Key facts for crop up
PropertyValue
Headwordcrop up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “crop up” sits in English frequency

crop upsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crop up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crop up, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is crop up, spelled C-R-O-P- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how crop up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. We'll finish tonight if no problems crop up.
  2. Cares crop up in villas.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crop up"?
"crop up" is spelled C-R-O-P- -U-P.
What does "crop up" mean?
As a verb, "crop up" means: To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
What language does "crop up" come from?
"crop up" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list