crown
/kɹaʊ̯n/noun, adjective, verb
crown is spelled C-R-O-W-N. The wrong spelling people search most is crowm: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 270 of all searches for the word. Crown is a noun meaning “A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem”. The plural of crown is crowns.
How many letters and syllables are in crown?
| Letters | 5: C-R-O-W-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, crowm, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell crown?
Crown is spelled C-R-O-W-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 274 of the searches for crown in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is crown?
Crown appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 crown?
- US /kɹaʊ̯n/
- /kɹæʊ̯n/
- /kɹaːn/
Crown has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-ca-crown.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with crown
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with crown?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as crown from its last stressed vowel (/aʊn/):
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 crown
- crowns plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- crowning participle, present
- crowned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crown mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- 2
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- 3
Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
the martyr’s crown
- 4
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- 5
The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- 6
The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
- 7
datedslangThe police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- 8
The topmost part of the head.
adjective
- 1
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
crown prince
- 2
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
a crown fire
verb
- 1
To place a crown on the head of.
The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]”
- 2
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- 3
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- 4
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- 5
To declare (someone) a winner.
- 6
To have its head's surface appear in the vaginal opening during the birthing process.
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
- 7
To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- 8
To hit on the head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crown in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | couronne , lauriers , sommet , de la couronne , couronner |
| German | Krone , Scheitel , kronen- , krönen , bombieren, wölben |
| Portuguese | coroa , medalha de honra , da coroa , coroar , grinalda, guirlanda |
| Spanish | corona , coronilla , coronar |
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 crown come from?
Inherited from Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone. Displaced Old English corenbēag (“crown”) and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”, literally “kinhelm” or “king's helm”). The paper sizes (etymology 1, noun sense 18) are so called because the papers were originally watermarked with a crown.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).