crepe

1. 1.

   cover or drape with crape

   “crape the mirror”

   Synonymscrape

   Broadercover

Other forms of crepe

plural

crepes·

past tense

creped·

present participle

creping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crepe

What does crepe mean?

crepe means "paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crepe?

crepe has 1 syllable: crepe. In IPA it is /ˈkɹeɪp/.

What is another word for crepe?

Close synonyms include crepe paper, crape, French pancake, crape, crape. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crepe a common word?

crepe is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.