CRP
"crp" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“CRP” is uncommon English (frequency #50,452 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,452
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crp · CRP · English
CRP · rank #50,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,452
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cronyism
Nearest frequency peer: cronyism (-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 “CRP”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- creatinine
creatinine
49,554 corpus weight
- Cressida
Cressida
49,552 corpus weight
- cronyism
cronyism
49,550 corpus weight
- CRP
CRP
49,549 corpus weight
- CWA
CWA
49,546 corpus weight
- cynically
cynically
49,545 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “CRP” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | CRP |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “CRP” in English
Rare enough to double-check
CRP is uncommon English at frequency #50,452 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.".
No misspelling variants are generated for CRP in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is CRP, spelled C-R-P.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CRP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The only major source whom the reporters reveal by name is Hugh Sloan, the slight young Nixon operative who resigned as treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President when he learned of C.R.P.’s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P.
Synonyms
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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