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Synonyms for crate

Most common

packing case

All synonyms

Noun

1. Wreck — A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable

wreck, jalopy dated US

Other

packing case, hamper, crateful informal

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.

Forms

Plural
crates → wrecks, jalopies, hampers, cratefuls…

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
craterising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
wreck1
6 letters
hamper2, jalopy3
8 letters
crateful

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hamper2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
cageot
Deutsch
Stiege