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krab

noun

krab is spelled K-R-A-B: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, krab means “Clipping of carabiner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of krab is krabs.

How many letters and syllables are in krab?

Letters4: K-R-A-B
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,122nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is krab?

Krab appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with krab?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as krab.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: bark.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of krab

  • krabs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does krab mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialClipping of carabiner.

  2. 2

    colloquialimitation crab meat; crab stick; kamaboko

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does krab come from?

Modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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