croup
/kɹuːp/
"croup" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“croup” is uncommon English (frequency #72,211 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,211
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
Corpus desk
Index EN-croup · croup · English
croup · rank #72,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,211
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH crunk
Nearest frequency peer: crunk (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “croup”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- corked
corked
27,796 corpus weight
- Cornhill
Cornhill
27,794 corpus weight
- croup
croup
27,790 corpus weight
- crunk
crunk
27,789 corpus weight
- Cuellar
Cuellar
27,786 corpus weight
- Cuenca
Cuenca
27,785 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “croup” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹuːp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “croup” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
croup is uncommon English at frequency #72,211 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɹuːp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.".
Zero misspellings are on record for croup in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper,… The correct English form is croup, spelled C-R-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
Etymology
From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.