cree
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#842
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cree is anSpanishadj. It means: Perteneciente o relativo a una etnia amerindia, nativa de la región de los Grandes Lagos en Norteamérica, históricamente cazadores de la fauna subártica y secundariamente recolectores. Pronounced [ˈkɾee]. It ranks #842 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cry and cri.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cree |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈkɾee] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cree is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾee]. Corpus data places it at rank #842 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cree, with forms such as "ccree", "cere", and "cre". 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, "cry", "cri", "cue", 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 cree, spelled C-R-E-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente o relativo a una etnia amerindia, nativa de la región de los Grandes Lagos en Norteamérica, históricamente cazadores de la fauna subártica y secundariamente recolectores.
- 2Perteneciente o relativo a la lengua hablada por los miembros de esta etnia.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccree,cere,cre,crree,rcee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cree
Misspelling Variants of "cree"
Frequency rank: #842 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: