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-craft

-craft suffix: a skill of a particular kind.

Suffix (1)

-craft (noun-forming suffix, usually uncountable, plural -crafts)

  1. (usually) A skill of a particular kind.
    • statecraft
    • stagecraft
    Synonyms:
    -work

Suffix (2)

-craft (noun-forming suffix, plural -craft or (nonstandard) -crafts)

  1. A vehicle of a particular type.
    • aircraft
    • hovercraft

Suffix (3)

-craft (proper noun-forming suffix)

  1. A Minecraft mod or server with a particular theme.
    • hermit + -craft → Hermitcraft
    • security + -craft → SecurityCraft

Synonyms of -craft

Forms of -craft

plural-crafts
plural-craft
plural (nonstandard)-crafts

Origin of -craft

From Middle English -craft, -creft, from Old English -cræft (“art or skill in”), from cræft (“art, skill”). More at craft.

From craft (“vehicle, vessel”).

Back-formation from Minecraft; ultimately from etymology 1 above.

Questions about -craft

What does -craft mean?
-craft means a skill of a particular kind.
What part of speech is -craft?
-craft is a suffix.

Words near -craft in the dictionary

  1. -cosa-
  2. -cosm
  3. -coxib
  4. -cracies
  5. -cracy
  6. -craft
  7. -crafts
  8. -crasy
  9. -crat
  10. -cratic
  11. -crats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -craft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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