crispa
[ˈkɾispa]
The verdict
“crispa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #89,730 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,730
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de crispar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crispa · crispa · Spanish
crispa · rank #89,730 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,730
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cretense
Nearest frequency peer: cretense (-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 “crispa”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- courage
courage
10,276 corpus weight
- crediticios
crediticios
10,273 corpus weight
- cretense
cretense
10,272 corpus weight
- crispa
crispa
10,271 corpus weight
- critic
critic
10,269 corpus weight
- cuchitril
cuchitril
10,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “crispa” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crispa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkɾispa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crispa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crispa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #89,730 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkɾispa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crispa, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is crispa, spelled C-R-I-S-P-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de crispar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de crispar.
- 3Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de crispir.
- 4Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de crispir.
- 5Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de crispir.
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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