Creon
/ˈkɹiː.ɒn/
"creon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Creon” is uncommon English (frequency #83,152 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,152
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-creon · Creon · English
Creon · rank #83,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,152
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cratered
Nearest frequency peer: cratered (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Creon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Coupland
Coupland
16,853 corpus weight
- covetous
covetous
16,851 corpus weight
- cratered
cratered
16,850 corpus weight
- Creon
Creon
16,849 corpus weight
- crisscrossi…
crisscrossing
16,848 corpus weight
- cyclase
cyclase
16,845 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Creon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Creon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Creon is uncommon English at frequency #83,152 among 5,599 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Creon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It has often been observed that Creon imputes corrupt motives (here and to Teiresias), because this was a level of motivation within his comprehension.
Above all -- and this is of central importance in connection with the legal implications -- it is essential to understand that Creon must emerge as an appropriate counterweight to the obsessive energy of Antigone: that "Antigone's fate provides the foil for Creon and, in turn, Creon's fate becomes evident only against the background of Antigone's desitiny.
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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