crowberry
/ˈkɹəʊbəɹɪ/noun
crowberry is spelled C-R-O-W-B-E-R-R-Y: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crowberry means “Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crowberry is crowberries.
How many letters and syllables are in crowberry?
| Letters | 9: C-R-O-W-B-E-R-R-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is crowberry?
Crowberry appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 crowberry?
- UK /ˈkɹəʊbəɹɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-crowberry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of crowberry
- crowberries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crowberry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
- 2
Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.
- 3
A fruit of this plant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crowberry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 crowberry come from?
From crow + berry; probably a calque of German Krähenbeere. Apparently so-called due to birds' fondness for the fruit. Yet the dark color (compare Old Norse blár (“blue-black, like a raven's sheen”)) may be the main or another factor; compare Inuktitut paurngaq (“crowberry”) (allegedly meaning "which looks like soot").
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).