creer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#864
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
creer is aSpanishverb. It means: Estar persuadido de que algo es cierto. Pronounced [kɾeˈeɾ]. It ranks #864 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and creí.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɾeˈeɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for creer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɾeˈeɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #864 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 creer, with forms such as "ccreer", "cerer", and "creerr". 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", "creí", "crew", 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 creer, spelled C-R-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estar persuadido de que algo es cierto.
- 2Tener por verosímil o probable.
- 3Dar asenso, tener por cierto.
- 4Pensar, juzgar, sospechar o estar persuadido.
- 5Confiar en que lo que dice una persona es cierto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccreer,cerer,creerr,crer,crere,crreer,rceer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for creer
Misspelling Variants of "creer"
Frequency rank: #864 in Spanish
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