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crouse

adjective

crouse is spelled C-R-O-U-S-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, crouse means “brisk; lively; bold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crouse?

Letters6: C-R-O-U-S-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 64,400th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is crouse?

Crouse appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 64,400th 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 crouse?

    Crouse 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).

    What rhymes with crouse?

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

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: course, source.

    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 crouse

    • more crouse comparative
    • most crouse superlative

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

    What does crouse mean?

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

    adjective

    1. 1

      Scotlandbrisk; lively; bold

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

    Where does crouse come from?

    Uncertain.

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

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