crow scarer
"crow-scarer" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crow scarer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crow-scarer · crow scarer · English
crow scarer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crow scarer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crow scarer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crow scarer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for crow scarer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is crow scarer, spelled C-R-O-W- -S-C-A-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1A farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields.
- 2Synonym of scarecrow (“effigy fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there”).
- 3A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare crows and other birds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crow scarer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For example, little Joseph Arch, aged seven or eight years, started as a crow-scarer on a twelve-hour shift, earning four pennies a day. After two or three years he became a ploughboy at six pennies a day […]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.