crema
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,087
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
crema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte lipídica de la leche, que se separa de ésta por centrifugado u otro medio para su consumo en diversas preparaciones. Pronounced [ˈkɾema]. It ranks #5,087 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with creo and cría.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾema] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for crema is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾema]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,087 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for crema, with forms such as "ccrema", "cerma", and "cremma". 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", "cría", "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 crema, spelled C-R-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte lipídica de la leche, que se separa de ésta por centrifugado u otro medio para su consumo en diversas preparaciones.
- 2La parte más rica y selecta de una sociedad.
- 3Sopa u otro alimento de consistencia espesa y homogénea.
- 4Licor de consistencia cremosa por la adición de yema de huevo en su elaboración.
- 5Manjar elaborado con crema₁, azúcar, huevo y aromas que se emplea como relleno de tortas y pasteles.
- 6Cualquier sustancia de consistencia pastosa y untuosa.
- 7Betún para lustrar calzado.
- 8Fármaco o loción de aplicación tópica de base acuosa y consistencia pastosa que se aplica en la piel de modo que se absorba.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrema,cerma,cremma,crmea,crrema,rcema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crema
Misspelling Variants of "crema"
Frequency rank: #5,087 in Spanish
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