crisma
[ˈkɾisma]
The verdict
“crisma” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,802 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,802
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mezcla de aceite y algún perfume o bálsamo, que se emplea en la administración de ciertos sacramentos cristianos como el bautismo, la confirmación y la ordenación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crisma · crisma · Spanish
crisma · rank #82,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,802
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH crisantemos
Nearest frequency peer: crisantemos (-1 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 “crisma”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- corrigieron
corrigieron
17,204 corpus weight
- corrompió
corrompió
17,203 corpus weight
- crisantemos
crisantemos
17,200 corpus weight
- crisma
crisma
17,199 corpus weight
- crucificaron
crucificaron
17,198 corpus weight
- crédula
crédula
17,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “crisma” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crisma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾisma] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crisma” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crisma is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,802 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɾisma]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mezcla de aceite y algún perfume o bálsamo, que se emplea en la administración de ciertos sacramentos cristianos como el bautismo, la confirmación y la ordenación.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for crisma in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is crisma, spelled C-R-I-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1Mezcla de aceite y algún perfume o bálsamo, que se emplea en la administración de ciertos sacramentos cristianos como el bautismo, la confirmación y la ordenación.
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); 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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