crucial
[kɾuˈsjal]
The verdict
“crucial” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,093
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Determinante, crítico, esencial para la realización o el cumplimiento de algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crucial · crucial · Spanish
crucial · rank #9,093 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cráneo
Nearest frequency peer: cráneo (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “crucial”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- concesiones
concesiones
90,912 corpus weight
- consultado
consultado
90,910 corpus weight
- crucial
crucial
90,908 corpus weight
- cráneo
cráneo
90,907 corpus weight
- cubren
cubren
90,906 corpus weight
- debiera
debiera
90,905 corpus weight
What this shows “crucial” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crucial |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɾuˈsjal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “crucial”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around crucial (IPA [kɾuˈsjal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,093 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for crucial, with forms such as "ccrucial", "crcuial", and "crrucial". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cruciales", "crecía", "crecían", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is crucial, spelled C-R-U-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Determinante, crítico, esencial para la realización o el cumplimiento de algo.
- 2En forma de cruz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crucial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«En solo quince minutos fui impuesto de la situación de la región que tenía que dominar. Flores Magón estaba en Durango, hacia el sur, tratando de concentrar suficientes hombres y municiones para atacar el Torreón, punto crucial en todas las operaciones militares mexicanas, debido al hecho de que allí se encuentra el empalme del ferrocarril con el centro…
«Pero su pueblo estaba dormido, anestesiado, insensible al drama que vivía en aquellos instantes cruciales de su historia. Ante la grave desventura, Hostos hizo un diagnóstico valedero para entonces y para ahora: “Lo muerto en Puerto Rico no es la dignidad del pueblo, sino la voluntad capaz de despertarla y de encaminarla”».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrucial
- crcuial
- crrucial
- crucail
- cruccial
- cruciall
- crucila
- cruical
- crusial
- curcial
- rcucial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crucial - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "crucial", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).