crowed
/kɹəʊd/
"crowed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crowed” is uncommon English (frequency #59,308 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,308
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of crow
Corpus desk
Index EN-crowed · crowed · English
crowed · rank #59,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,308
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH croak
Nearest frequency peer: croak (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “crowed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crapped
crapped
40,696 corpus weight
- creasing
creasing
40,695 corpus weight
- croak
croak
40,694 corpus weight
- crowed
crowed
40,693 corpus weight
- cubism
cubism
40,691 corpus weight
- cubist
cubist
40,690 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crowed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɹəʊd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crowed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crowed is uncommon English at frequency #59,308 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kɹəʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of crow".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for crowed, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is crowed, spelled C-R-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of crow
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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