crouches
/ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪz/
"crouches" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crouches” is uncommon English (frequency #84,130 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,130
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of crouch
Corpus desk
Index EN-crouches · crouches · English
crouches · rank #84,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,130
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crumpet
Nearest frequency peer: crumpet (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “crouches”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cresting
cresting
15,876 corpus weight
- cringes
cringes
15,874 corpus weight
- crouches
crouches
15,871 corpus weight
- crumpet
crumpet
15,870 corpus weight
- cueing
cueing
15,868 corpus weight
- CVN
CVN
15,867 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crouches” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crouches |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crouches” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crouches is uncommon English at frequency #84,130 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɹaʊt͡ʃɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of crouch".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crouches, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is crouches, spelled C-R-O-U-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of crouch
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).