Crumlin
/ˈkɹʌmlɪn/
"crumlin" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Crumlin” is uncommon English (frequency #74,004 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,004
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crumlin · Crumlin · English
Crumlin · rank #74,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,004
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crosswise
Nearest frequency peer: crosswise (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “Crumlin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Creswell
Creswell
26,001 corpus weight
- crisply
crisply
25,999 corpus weight
- crosswise
crosswise
25,998 corpus weight
- Crumlin
Crumlin
25,997 corpus weight
- culturing
culturing
25,994 corpus weight
- curmudgeon
curmudgeon
25,993 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Crumlin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crumlin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹʌmlɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Crumlin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Crumlin is uncommon English at frequency #74,004 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkɹʌmlɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Crumlin in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish cromghlinn (“crooked valley”), from crom (“bent”) + léana (“valley, swampy plain”). The correct English form is Crumlin, spelled C-R-U-M-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
- 2A town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Etymology
From Irish cromghlinn (“crooked valley”), from crom (“bent”) + léana (“valley, swampy plain”).
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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