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crouch

/ˈkɹaʊ̯t͡ʃ/verb, noun

crouch is spelled C-R-O-U-C-H: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, crouch means “To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crouch?

Letters6: C-R-O-U-C-H
Syllables1
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,629th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 crouch?

Crouch appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,629th 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 crouch?

  • US /ˈkɹaʊ̯t͡ʃ/
  • US [ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯t͡ʃ]
  • /ˈkɹɐʊ̯t͡ʃ/

Crouch has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mélange_a_trois-crouch.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with crouch?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as crouch from its last stressed vowel (/aʊtʃ/):

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 crouch

  • crouches present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • crouching participle, present
  • crouched participle, past

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

What does crouch mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

    We crouched behind the low wall until the squad of soldiers had passed by.

  2. 2

    To bend servilely; to bow in reverence or humility.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo sign with the cross; bless.

noun

  1. 1

    A bent or stooped position.

    The cat waited in a crouch, hidden behind the hedge.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA cross.

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

Crouch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchse tapir, s'accroupir, se recroqueviller (to bend down), s'incliner (to bend servilely)
Germankauern (to bend down)
Portugueseagachar (to bend down), prostar-se (to bend, as in humility or fear)
Spanishagacharse, encogerse, agazaparse (to bend down), inclinarse (to bend, as in humility or fear), inclinación (bent or stooped position), persignarse (to sign with the cross)

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 crouch come from?

From Middle English crouchen (“to bend, crouch”), variant of croken (“to bend, crook”), from crok (“crook, hook”), from Old Norse krókr (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“wicker, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind, weave”). Compare Middle Dutch krōken (“to crook, curl”). More at crook.

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

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