crowkeeper

noun

"crowkeeper" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“crowkeeper” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person employed to scare off crows.

Corpus desk

Index EN-crowkeeper · crowkeeper · English

crowkeeper · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for crowkeeper
PropertyValue
Headwordcrowkeeper
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “crowkeeper” in English

crowkeeperranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

crowkeeper is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for crowkeeper in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From crow + keeper. The correct English form is crowkeeper, spelled C-R-O-W-K-E-E-P-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person employed to scare off crows.
  2. 2
    A scarecrow.

Etymology

From crow + keeper.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "crowkeeper"?
"crowkeeper" is spelled C-R-O-W-K-E-E-P-E-R.
What does "crowkeeper" mean?
As a noun, "crowkeeper" means: A person employed to scare off crows.
What is the origin of the word "crowkeeper"?
From crow + keeper. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list