crespo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,562
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
crespo is anSpanishadj. It means: Ensortijado, rizado, revuelto, enmarañado,etc. Se dice del cabello que naturalmente forma rizos o sortijillas. Pronounced [ˈkɾespo]. Often confused with creyó and cuerpo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crespo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈkɾespo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for crespo is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾespo]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,562 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for crespo, with forms such as "ccrespo", "cerspo", and "crepso". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "creyó", "cuerpo", "Cristo", 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 crespo, spelled C-R-E-S-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensortijado, rizado, revuelto, enmarañado,etc. Se dice del cabello que naturalmente forma rizos o sortijillas.
- 2Se dice de las hojas de algunas plantas, cuando están retorcidas o encarrujadas.
- 3Vistoso, adornado.
- 4Se aplica al estilo artificioso, oscuro y difícil de entenderse.
- 5Irritado o alterado.
- 6Se denomina así al buque que tiene muy alta la obra muerta y que es, por tanto, de mucho puntal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccrespo,cerspo,crepso,cresop,cresppo,cresspo,crrespo,crsepo,rcespo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for crespo
Misspelling Variants of "crespo"
Frequency rank: #14,562 in Spanish
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