croup

Other forms of croup

plural

croups·

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 croup

What does croup mean?

croup means "a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in croup?

croup has 1 syllable: croup. In IPA it is /ˈkɹup/.

What is another word for croup?

Close synonyms include spasmodic laryngitis, hindquarters, croupe, rump. 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 croup a common word?

croup 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.