# creature

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɹiː.tʃə/ · frequency rank #5,488

## Definitions
1. A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
2. An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
3. A human.
4. A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
5. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

## Etymology
From Middle English creature in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French creature, criature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft. Doublet of craythur and critter.

## Easily confused with
- **creatures** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/creature-vs-creatures)
- **curvature** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/creature-vs-curvature)
- **create** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/create-vs-creature)
- **creator** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/creator-vs-creature)
- **creative** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/creative-vs-creature)
- **creatine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/creatine-vs-creature)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ccreature`, `cerature`, `craeture`, `creatrue`, `creatture`, `creatuer`, `creaturre`, `creautre`, `cretaure`, `crreature`, `rceature`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/creature