crowdsource
"crowdsource" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crowdsource” is uncommon English (frequency #88,242 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,242
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crowdsource |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crowdsource” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crowdsource is uncommon English at frequency #88,242 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.".
crowdsource has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From crowd + source; more at crowdsourcing. The correct English form is crowdsource, spelled C-R-O-W-D-S-O-U-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.
Etymology
From crowd + source; more at crowdsourcing.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “crowdsource”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-O-W-D-S-O-U-R-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.