croce

Name: croce, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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/[…]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“croce” is uncommon German (frequency #67,105 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,105
frequency rank, German: 1,273
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kreuz

Corpus desk

Index DE-croce · croce · German

croce · rank #67,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #67,105
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 1,273
PHOTO-FINISH Cristian

Nearest frequency peer: Cristian (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Cosmopolitan

32,899
Cristian

32,897
croce

32,896
Cumberland

32,894
Dall

32,893
Darwins

32,892

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „croce“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Key facts for croce
Property	Value
Headword	croce
Language	German
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[…]
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#67,105
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „croce“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.crocefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#67,105

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Cristian“ (#67,104), „Cumberland“ (#67,107), „Cosmopolitan“ (#67,102). Unter 1,273 „C“-Lemmata liegt „croce“ bei #67,105. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

croce is uncommon German at frequency #67,105 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kreuz".

croce has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is croce, spelled C-R-O-C-E.

Definition

1
Kreuz

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "croce"?

"croce" is spelled C-R-O-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].

What does "croce" mean?

As a noun, "croce" means: Kreuz

How do you pronounce "croce"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "croce" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "croce" come from?

"croce" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "croce", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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