crust
/kɹʌst/
"crust" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crust” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,194
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crust · crust · English
crust · rank #11,194 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,194
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crisp
Nearest frequency peer: crisp (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “crust”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- counterpart
counterpart
88,810 corpus weight
- creed
creed
88,809 corpus weight
- crisp
crisp
88,808 corpus weight
- crust
crust
88,807 corpus weight
- cutter
cutter
88,806 corpus weight
- daring
daring
88,805 corpus weight
What this shows “crust” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crust |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹʌst/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “crust”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around crust (IPA /kɹʌst/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,194 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for crust, with forms such as "ccrust", "crrust", and "crsut". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "CST", "cult", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old Engl… The correct English form is crust, spelled C-R-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
- 2The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
- 3An outer layer composed of pastry
- 4The bread-like base of a pizza.
- 5A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
- 6The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
- 7The outermost layer of the lithosphere of any terrestrial planet.
- 8The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- 9A living.
- 10Nerve, gall.
- 11The head.
- 12Ellipsis of crust punk, a subgenre of punk music.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
They […] made the crust for the venison pasty.
Etymology
From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrust
- crrust
- crsut
- crusst
- crustt
- cruts
- curst
- rcust
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crust - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar misspelling depth
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