follow the crowd
"follow-the-crowd" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“follow the crowd” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To conform to majority beliefs, opinions, or practices.
Corpus desk
Index EN-follow-the-crowd · follow the crowd · English
follow the crowd · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | follow the crowd |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “follow the crowd” in English
Rare enough to double-check
follow the crowd is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To conform to majority beliefs, opinions, or practices.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for follow the crowd, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is follow the crowd, spelled F-O-L-L-O-W- -T-H-E- -C-R-O-W-D.
Definition
- 1To conform to majority beliefs, opinions, or practices.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how follow the crowd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As much as the next guy, I don't like to follow the crowd.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.