holy crap

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"holy-crap" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“holy crap” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An expression of amazement: holy cow, holy shit.

Corpus desk

Index EN-holy-crap · holy crap · English

holy crap · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" 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.

Key facts for holy crap
PropertyValue
Headwordholy crap
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechInterjection
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “holy crap” sits in English frequency

holy crapranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

holy crap is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An expression of amazement: holy cow, holy shit.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for holy crap, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is holy crap, spelled H-O-L-Y- -C-R-A-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    An expression of amazement: holy cow, holy shit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how holy crap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Holy crap, I can't believe we actually won!

Synonyms

wow

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "holy crap"?
"holy crap" is spelled H-O-L-Y- -C-R-A-P.
What does "holy crap" mean?
As an interjection, "holy crap" means: An expression of amazement: holy cow, holy shit.
What language does "holy crap" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list