crowd
/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/verb, noun
crowd is spelled C-R-O-W-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 50 times per million words in written English, the 2,041st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, crowd means “To press forward; to advance by pushing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in crowd?
| Letters | 5: C-R-O-W-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 50 times per million words; the 2,041st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is crowd?
Crowd appears 50 times per million words in written English, the 2,041st 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 crowd?
- US /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
- US [ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d]
- /ˈkɹæʊ̯d/
Crowd has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-crowd.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with crowd?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as crowd from its last stressed vowel (/aʊd/):
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 crowd
- crowds present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- crowding participle, present
- crowded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crowd mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.
- 2
To press together or collect in numbers.
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- 3
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- 4
To fill by pressing or thronging together
- 5
To push, to press, to shove.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
- 6
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- 7
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- 8
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- 9
obsoleteTo play on a crowd; to fiddle.
noun
- 1
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
- 2
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
- 3
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- 4
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
- 5
obsoleteAlternative form of crwth.
- 6
A fiddle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crowd in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | se précipiter , foule , monceau |
| Portuguese | pressionar , multidão , pilha, monte , massa, povo |
| Spanish | atestarse, atiborrarse, abarrotarse, henchirse, atarugarse, agolparse |
| German | Gedränge, Menge, Volk, Menschenmenge, Menschenmasse , Haufen |
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 crowd come from?
From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).