creo
[ˈkɾeo]
The verdict
“creo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #123) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #123
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de creer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-creo · creo · Spanish
creo · rank #123 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #123
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH lugar
Nearest frequency peer: lugar (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “creo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- durante
durante
99,881 corpus weight
- ellos
ellos
99,880 corpus weight
- lugar
lugar
99,879 corpus weight
- creo
creo
99,878 corpus weight
- cómo
cómo
99,877 corpus weight
- hecho
hecho
99,876 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “creo” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkɾeo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “creo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for creo is neighbouring look-alikes ("cry", "cri", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈkɾeo]. Frequency #123 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for creo, with forms such as "ccreo", "croe", and "crreo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is creo, spelled C-R-E-O.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de creer.
- 2Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de indicativo de crear.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreo
- croe
- crreo
- rceo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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