crime

Other forms of crime

plural

crimes·

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 crime

What does crime mean?

crime means "(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crime?

crime has 1 syllable: crime. In IPA it is /ˈkɹaɪm/.

What is another word for crime?

Close synonyms include criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breaking. 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 crime a common word?

crime is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.