cromo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,784
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cromo is aSpanishnoun. It means: El cromo es un elemento químico de número atómico 24 que se encuentra en el grupo 6 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Cr. Es un metal que se emplea especialmente en metalurgia. Pronounced [ˈkɾomo]. Often confused with crudo and cross.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cromo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾomo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cromo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾomo]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,784 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cromo, with forms such as "ccromo", "cormo", and "crmoo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crudo", "cross", "cruzo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is cromo, spelled C-R-O-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El cromo es un elemento químico de número atómico 24 que se encuentra en el grupo 6 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Cr. Es un metal que se emplea especialmente en metalurgia.
- 2En artes gráficas, cartulina, tarjeta o estampa, que exhibe figuras coloridas o imágenes de personajes (por ejemplo futbolistas) y que los niños utilizan para coleccionar en álbumes o jugar (a menudo a su intercambio). En la actualidad los cromos pueden ser autoadhesivos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccromo,cormo,crmoo,crommo,croom,crromo,rcomo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cromo
Misspelling Variants of "cromo"
Frequency rank: #26,784 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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