Cruz Roja
The verdict
“Cruz Roja” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Organización humanitaria internacional que asiste a los heridos, enfermos, y personas sin hogar. Su símbolo es una cruz roja en fondo blanco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cruz Roja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkɾus ˈroxa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Cruz Roja” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Cruz Roja is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾus ˈroxa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organización humanitaria internacional que asiste a los heridos, enfermos, y personas sin hogar. Su símbolo es una cruz roja en fondo blanco.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cruz Roja in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Cruz Roja, spelled C-R-U-Z- -R-O-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organización humanitaria internacional que asiste a los heridos, enfermos, y personas sin hogar. Su símbolo es una cruz roja en fondo blanco.
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Using “Cruz Roja”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-R-U-Z- -R-O-J-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkɾus ˈroxa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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