cruces
/ˈkɹu.siz/
"cruces" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cruces” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,405
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of crux
Corpus desk
Index EN-cruces · cruces · English
cruces · rank #46,405 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,405
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crimp
Nearest frequency peer: crimp (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cruces”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- covey
covey
53,599 corpus weight
- crimp
crimp
53,597 corpus weight
- cruces
cruces
53,596 corpus weight
- customarily
customarily
53,593 corpus weight
- Dagestan
Dagestan
53,592 corpus weight
- Dartford
Dartford
53,591 corpus weight
What this shows “cruces” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cruces |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹu.siz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cruces”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cruces (IPA /ˈkɹu.siz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,405 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of crux".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruces, with forms such as "ccruces", "crcues", and "crruces". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cues", "cruel", "crude", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is cruces, spelled C-R-U-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of crux
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Others, trained in the interpretation of linguistic cruces in the Odyssey and Beowulf, find it difficult to detect clarity and certainty in instructions like the following (for the operation of a video cassette recorder)[.]
I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccruces
- crcues
- crruces
- crucces
- crucess
- crucse
- cruecs
- curces
- rcuces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruces - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cruces", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).