front crawl
/ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/
"front-crawl" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“front crawl” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A style of swimming where the swimmer is face-down in the water and moves the arms in alternating overhead strokes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | front crawl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “front crawl” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for front crawl is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A style of swimming where the swimmer is face-down in the water and moves the arms in alternating overhead strokes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for front crawl, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 front crawl, spelled F-R-O-N-T- -C-R-A-W-L.
Definition
- 1A style of swimming where the swimmer is face-down in the water and moves the arms in alternating overhead strokes.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “front crawl”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-R-O-N-T- -C-R-A-W-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.