crestón
[kɾesˈt̪õn]
The verdict
“crestón” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte alta de la celada con forma de cresta, en la que se ponen las plumas de adorno.
Corpus desk
Index ES-creston · crestón · Spanish
crestón · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crestón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɾesˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crestón” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crestón is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɾesˈt̪õn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crestón, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is crestón, spelled C-R-E-S-T-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Parte alta de la celada con forma de cresta, en la que se ponen las plumas de adorno.
- 2Parte de un filón que aflora, que sobresale en el terreno.
- 3Joven enamoradizo.
- 4Cabezo o rompiente.
- 5Tonto, bobo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.