crear
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#820
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crear is aSpanishverb. It means: Producir algo que antes no existía; generar la existencia de algo o de alguien. Pronounced [kɾeˈaɾ]. It ranks #820 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and cree.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɾeˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for crear is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɾeˈaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #820 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for crear, with forms such as "ccrear", "cerar", and "craer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "creo", "cree", "creí", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is crear, spelled C-R-E-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Producir algo que antes no existía; generar la existencia de algo o de alguien.
- 2Establecer, instituir o fundar algo que no existía.
- 3Dar a alguien una dignidad o cargo que antes no tenía y que cambia su estatus de manera significativa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrear,cerar,craer,crearr,crera,crrear,rcear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crear
Misspelling Variants of "crear"
Frequency rank: #820 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: