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crag¹

  • /ˈkɹæɡ/ US, UK
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷæɡ] US, UK
  • /ˈkɹaɡ/ British, Midlands, Northern England
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷaɡ] British, Midlands, Northern England
  • /ˈkɹæ(ː)ɡ/ Australia
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷæ(ː)ɡ] Australia
  • /ˈkɹɛɡ/ New Zealand
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷɛɡ] New Zealand
  • /ˈkɾaɡ/ Scotland, Wales
  • /ˈkɹeɪɡ/
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷeɪ̯ɡ]

Sounds like Craig (/æ/ raising before /ɡ/) · Rhymes with -æɡ

Where it comes from

From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).

noun crags · craig

  1. Northern England, countable, uncountable A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock. "Have, then, thy wish!"—he whistled shrill, / And he was answered from the hill; / Wild as the scream of the curlieu, / From crag to crag the signal flew.
  2. countable, uncountable A rough, broken fragment of rock.
  3. countable, uncountable A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
  4. uncountable A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.

crag²

  • /ˈkɹæɡ/ US, UK
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷæɡ] US, UK
  • /ˈkɹaɡ/ British, Midlands, Northern England
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷaɡ] British, Midlands, Northern England
  • /ˈkɹæ(ː)ɡ/ Australia
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷæ(ː)ɡ] Australia
  • /ˈkɹɛɡ/ New Zealand
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷɛɡ] New Zealand
  • /ˈkɾaɡ/ Scotland, Wales
  • /ˈkɹeɪɡ/
  • [ˈkʰɹ̠ʷeɪ̯ɡ]

Sounds like Craig (/æ/ raising before /ɡ/) · Rhymes with -æɡ

Where it comes from

A variant of craw.

noun crags

  1. dialectal, obsolete The neck or throat.

Crag³

proper noun

  1. A dice game similar to Yahtzee.

Translations

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noun rocky outcrop

Españolafloramiento rocoso, peñón, despeñadero, risco
日本語巨岩 kyogan, 崖 gake
中文峭壁 qiàobì, 崖 yá
Portuguêsrochedo, penha
Françaisaffleurement, éperon rocheux
DeutschFelsen
Italianocostone, dirupo, strapiombo, precipizio, bricco, bric
Русскийскала́ skalá, утёс utjós
العربيةجُرْفٌ jurfun

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@misc{crag_2026,
  title = {crag},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crag},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}