cruzarse
[kɾuˈsaɾse]
The verdict
“cruzarse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,037
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomar la cruz, alistándose en una cruzada o ingresando en una orden militar o instituto semejante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cruzarse · cruzarse · Spanish
cruzarse · rank #34,037 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,037
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH crudas
Nearest frequency peer: crudas (-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 “cruzarse”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- criadores
criadores
65,967 corpus weight
- criando
criando
65,966 corpus weight
- crudas
crudas
65,965 corpus weight
- cruzarse
cruzarse
65,964 corpus weight
- cuelgo
cuelgo
65,963 corpus weight
- culinarias
culinarias
65,962 corpus weight
What this shows “cruzarse” 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 | cruzarse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɾuˈsaɾse] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cruzarse”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cruzarse (IPA [kɾuˈsaɾse]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,037 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tomar la cruz, alistándose en una cruzada o ingresando en una orden militar o instituto semejante.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cruzarse, with forms such as "ccruzarse", "crruzarse", and "cruazrse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cruzas", "curarse", "cruzar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 cruzarse, spelled C-R-U-Z-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Tomar la cruz, alistándose en una cruzada o ingresando en una orden militar o instituto semejante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cruzarse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se cruzó de santiaguista.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccruzarse
- crruzarse
- cruazrse
- cruzarce
- cruzares
- cruzarrse
- cruzarsse
- cruzasre
- cruzrase
- cruzzarse
- crzuarse
- curzarse
- rcuzarse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cruzarse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "cruzarse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).