front crawl
/ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/
"front-crawl" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“front crawl” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A style of swimming where the swimmer is face-down in the water and moves the arms in alternating overhead strokes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-front-crawl · front crawl · English
front crawl · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | front crawl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “front crawl” in English
Rare enough to double-check
front crawl is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.