Spelling.School · How to spell

How to spell crow

hear itcrow/kroʊ/nounLong vowels

What it means: A large black bird.

In a sentence: The crow sits on the fence.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cro or crowe.

Same family: crowed, crowing, boast, brag, gloat. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This verb sense of "crow" comes from the loud call of the bird called a crow or rooster; people who loudly boast are said to "crow" like these noisy birds. The word has Old English roots and has been used in English for more than a thousand years.

Try spelling it

You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

Words like this

Spelling.School is a spaced-repetition spelling practice: ten minutes a day, every word spoken aloud, every miss explained, and every word coming back just before you would forget it. Try five words without signing up.