cresta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,216
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cresta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano carnoso, usualmente de color vistoso, propio de las aves, de algunos reptiles como los dinosaurios e iguanas y de algunos anfibios como los tritones. Pronounced [ˈkɾest̪a]. Often confused with creta and cuenta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cresta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾest̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cresta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾest̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,216 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 cresta, with forms such as "ccresta", "cersta", and "cresat". 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, "creta", "cuenta", "Cuesta", 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 cresta, spelled C-R-E-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Órgano carnoso, usualmente de color vistoso, propio de las aves, de algunos reptiles como los dinosaurios e iguanas y de algunos anfibios como los tritones.
- 2Moño de plumas en la cabeza de algunas aves.
- 3Punto más alto de la perturbación de una onda.
- 4Cumbre peñascosa y prolongada de una montaña.
- 5Pequeña protuberancia alargada en algunos animales.
- 6Algo insignificante, carente de importancia.
- 7Peinado de pelo erguido y tieso, como el que usaron algunos indios pieles rojas en el pasado y que ahora usan algunos jóvenes, pintándolo con colores vistosos, como distintivo de su pertenencia a una tribu urbana.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccresta,cersta,cresat,cressta,crestta,cretsa,crresta,crseta,rcesta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cresta
Misspelling Variants of "cresta"
Frequency rank: #13,216 in Spanish
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