crecer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,766
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crecer is aSpanishverb. It means: De una persona o animal: hacerse más grande, sobre todo en estatura. Pronounced [kɾeˈseɾ]. It ranks #2,766 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cree and creer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crecer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɾeˈseɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for crecer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɾeˈseɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,766 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for crecer, with forms such as "ccrecer", "cercer", and "crceer". 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, "cree", "creer", "creen", 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 crecer, spelled C-R-E-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De una persona o animal: hacerse más grande, sobre todo en estatura.
- 2Aumentar de tamaño.
- 3Aumentar la Luna su parte visible a la Tierra.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrecer,cercer,crceer,creccer,crecerr,crecre,creecr,creser,crrecer,rcecer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crecer
Misspelling Variants of "crecer"
Frequency rank: #2,766 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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