crotón
[kɾoˈt̪õn]
The verdict
“crotón” 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 May 6, 2026) - (Croton) Cualquiera de las plantas de su género homónimo, de la familia Euphorbiaceae de distribución pantropical. Son árboles, arbustos o hierbas. Con hojas alternas o subopuestas debajo de las in...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crotón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɾoˈt̪õn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crotón” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crotón is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɾoˈt̪õn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Croton) Cualquiera de las plantas de su género homónimo, de la familia Euphorbiaceae de distribución pantropical. Son árboles, arbustos o hierbas. Con hojas alternas o subopuestas debajo de las in...".
crotón has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 crotón, spelled C-R-O-T-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1(Croton) Cualquiera de las plantas de su género homónimo, de la familia Euphorbiaceae de distribución pantropical. Son árboles, arbustos o hierbas. Con hojas alternas o subopuestas debajo de las inflorescencias terminales, a veces palmadamente lobadas, pinnatinervias o palmatinervias; pecioladas, muy frecuentemente estipuladas, frecuentemente glandulares con tricomas, al menos en partes, estrellados o lepidotos, con látex al realizarle un daño en el tallo que oxida a color rojo; borde ligeramente aserrado y con un par de glándulas en la base, que se visualiza por el envés de la lámina. Las hojas que caen tornan de un color naranja.
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.
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Using “crotón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-R-O-T-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kɾoˈt̪õn] (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.