crique
[ˈkɾike]
The verdict
“crique” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Máquina que, mediante un engranaje y una traba de seguridad, permite levantar grandes pesos sin mucho esfuerzo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crique · crique · Spanish
crique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | crique |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾike] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crique” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crique is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɾike]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
crique has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is crique, spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Máquina que, mediante un engranaje y una traba de seguridad, permite levantar grandes pesos sin mucho esfuerzo.
- 2Bahía pequeña.
This word in other languages
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.