crucificar
[kɾusifiˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“crucificar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #61,462 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,462
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fijar o clavar en una cruz a una persona.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crucificar · crucificar · Spanish
crucificar · rank #61,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,462
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cristalería
Nearest frequency peer: cristalería (-3 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 “crucificar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cours
cours
38,545 corpus weight
- creepy
creepy
38,543 corpus weight
- cristalería
cristalería
38,542 corpus weight
- crucificar
crucificar
38,539 corpus weight
- cuadrito
cuadrito
38,536 corpus weight
- cuánticos
cuánticos
38,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “crucificar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crucificar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɾusifiˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crucificar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crucificar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #61,462 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [kɾusifiˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
crucificar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is crucificar, spelled C-R-U-C-I-F-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Fijar o clavar en una cruz a una persona.
- 2Perjudicar a alguien física o moralmente
- 3Desaprobar o censurar con severidad a alguien o algo
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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