Cretáceo
[kɾeˈt̪aseo]
The verdict
“Cretáceo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #77,117 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,117
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “Cretáceo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Cretáceo is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɾeˈt̪aseo]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,117 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Cretáceo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-R-E-T-Á-C-E-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kɾeˈt̪aseo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.