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croup

/kɹuːp/noun

croup is spelled C-R-O-U-P. The wrong spelling people search most is croop: about 350 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Croup is a noun meaning “The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped”. The plural of croup is croups.

How many letters and syllables are in croup?

Letters5: C-R-O-U-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 72,332nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, croop, about 350 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell croup?

Croup is spelled C-R-O-U-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for croup in either form.

croupthe right spelling8,850 searches a month
croopo in place of u350 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is croup?

Croup appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd 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 croup?

  • /kɹuːp/

Croup has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

What rhymes with croup?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as croup.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: cupro.

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 croup

  • croups plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • crouping participle, present
  • crouped participle, past

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

What does croup mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.

  2. 2

    An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo croak, make a hoarse noise.

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

Croup in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcroupe (top of the rump of a horse), croup (an infectious illness of the larynx)
GermanKruppe (top of the rump of a horse), Krupp, Kehlkopfdiphtherie (diphtheric), Pseudokrupp (viral) (an infectious illness of the larynx)
Spanishgrupa (top of the rump of a horse), crup, garrotillo (an infectious illness of the larynx)

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 croup come from?

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.

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

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