creces
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,303
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
creces is aSpanishnoun. It means: Devolución del préstamo hecho a panaderos, agricultores etc. en especie con unos intereses (generalmente bajos) llamados creces. Pronounced [ˈkɾeses]. Often confused with cree and creer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creces |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾeses] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for creces is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾeses]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,303 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 creces, with forms such as "ccreces", "cerces", and "crcees". 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 creces, spelled C-R-E-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Devolución del préstamo hecho a panaderos, agricultores etc. en especie con unos intereses (generalmente bajos) llamados creces.
- 2Indicio de que algo va a crecer. Muchacho de creces.
- 3Aumento o superioridad.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccreces,cerces,crcees,crecces,crecess,crecse,creecs,creses,crreces,rceces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for creces
Misspelling Variants of "creces"
Frequency rank: #16,303 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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