krab
"krab" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“krab” is uncommon English (frequency #74,241 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,241
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of carabiner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-krab · krab · English
krab · rank #74,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,241
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kosciusko
Nearest frequency peer: Kosciusko (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “krab”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kolbe
Kolbe
25,766 corpus weight
- kookaburra
kookaburra
25,764 corpus weight
- kopi
kopi
25,763 corpus weight
- kori
kori
25,762 corpus weight
- Kosciusko
Kosciusko
25,761 corpus weight
- krab
krab
25,760 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “krab” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | krab |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “krab” in English
Rare enough to double-check
krab is uncommon English at frequency #74,241 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clipping of carabiner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for krab in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw. The correct English form is krab, spelled K-R-A-B.
Definition
- 1Clipping of carabiner.
Etymology
Modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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