Cretáceo
[kɾeˈt̪aseo]
The verdict
“Cretáceo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #77,117 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,117
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercer período de la era Mesozoica, es una de las mayores divisiones de las eras geologicas, inicia al terminar el período Jurásico hace 146 millones de años y termina al inicio de la primera epoca...
Corpus desk
Index ES-cretaceo · Cretáceo · Spanish
Cretáceo · rank #77,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,117
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cremita
Nearest frequency peer: cremita (-2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Cretáceo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- corríamos
corríamos
22,890 corpus weight
- cremita
cremita
22,886 corpus weight
- Cretáceo
Cretáceo
22,884 corpus weight
- cries
cries
22,882 corpus weight
- cripto
cripto
22,881 corpus weight
- croqueta
croqueta
22,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Cretáceo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cretáceo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɾeˈt̪aseo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Cretáceo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Cretáceo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #77,117 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɾeˈt̪aseo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercer período de la era Mesozoica, es una de las mayores divisiones de las eras geologicas, inicia al terminar el período Jurásico hace 146 millones de años y termina al inicio de la primera epoca...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Cretáceo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Cretáceo, spelled C-R-E-T-Á-C-E-O.
Definition
- 1Tercer período de la era Mesozoica, es una de las mayores divisiones de las eras geologicas, inicia al terminar el período Jurásico hace 146 millones de años y termina al inicio de la primera epoca el Paleoceno del periodo Terciario hace 65.5 millones de años.
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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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