crops
/kɹɒps/
"crops" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crops” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,554
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of crop
Corpus desk
Index EN-crops · crops · English
crops · rank #6,554 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,554
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cos
Nearest frequency peer: cos (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “crops”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Clarke
Clarke
93,450 corpus weight
- comeback
comeback
93,449 corpus weight
- cos
cos
93,448 corpus weight
- crops
crops
93,447 corpus weight
- declare
declare
93,446 corpus weight
- detect
detect
93,444 corpus weight
What this shows “crops” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crops |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹɒps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “crops”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around crops (IPA /kɹɒps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,554 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of crop".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for crops, with forms such as "ccrops", "cropps", and "cropss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CRS", "cups", "crow", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is crops, spelled C-R-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of crop
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrops
- cropps
- cropss
- crosp
- crpos
- crrops
- rcops
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crops - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crops", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).