crys
"crys" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crys” is uncommon English (frequency #92,501 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,501
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of cries.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crys · crys · English
crys · rank #92,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,501
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CSW
Nearest frequency peer: CSW (+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 “crys”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cribbing
cribbing
7,503 corpus weight
- Croll
Croll
7,502 corpus weight
- crys
crys
7,500 corpus weight
- CSW
CSW
7,499 corpus weight
- cuboid
cuboid
7,498 corpus weight
- cuc
cuc
7,497 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crys” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crys |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crys” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crys is uncommon English at frequency #92,501 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of cries.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for crys, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 crys, spelled C-R-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of cries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crys appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.
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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