cremallera

/[kɾemaˈʝeɾa]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,406

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cremallera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cierre utilizado en prendas de vestir y marroquinería compuesto por dos cordones con dientes de plástico o metálicos que se encajan mediante la acción de un cursor. Pronounced [kɾemaˈʝeɾa].

Key facts for cremallera
PropertyValue
Headwordcremallera
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kɾemaˈʝeɾa]
Letters10
Frequency rank#30,406
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cremallera in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for cremallera is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɾemaˈʝeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,406 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for cremallera, with forms such as "ccremallera", "cermallera", and "creamllera". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 cremallera, spelled C-R-E-M-A-L-L-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cierre utilizado en prendas de vestir y marroquinería compuesto por dos cordones con dientes de plástico o metálicos que se encajan mediante la acción de un cursor.
  2. 2
    Barra metálica con dientes en uno de sus cantos, para engranar con un piñón y convertir un movimiento circular en rectilíneo o viceversa.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccremallera,cermallera,creamllera,cremalelra,cremalera,cremallear,cremallerra,cremallrea,cremlalera,cremmallera,crmeallera,crremallera,rcemallera

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cremallera

Misspelling Variants of "cremallera"

ccremallera11cermallera10creamllera10cremalelra10cremalera9cremallear10cremallerra11cremallrea10
Misspelling Variants of "cremallera"

Frequency rank: #30,406 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cremallera"?
"cremallera" is spelled C-R-E-M-A-L-L-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kɾemaˈʝeɾa].
What does "cremallera" mean?
As a noun, "cremallera" means: Cierre utilizado en prendas de vestir y marroquinería compuesto por dos cordones con dientes de plástico o metálicos que se encajan mediante la acción de un cursor.
What are common misspellings of "cremallera"?
Common misspellings include "ccremallera", "cermallera", "creamllera", "cremalelra", "cremalera". The correct spelling is "cremallera".
How do you pronounce "cremallera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cremallera" is [kɾemaˈʝeɾa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cremallera" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.