Creon
/ˈkɹiː.ɒn/
"creon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Creon” is uncommon English (frequency #83,152 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,152
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Creon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹiː.ɒn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Creon” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Creon is uncommon English at frequency #83,152 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkɹiː.ɒn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Creon, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ancient Greek Κρέων (Kréōn). The correct English form is Creon, spelled C-R-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κρέων (Kréōn).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Creon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-E-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.