kraken

/[ˈkɾakẽn]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,362

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

kraken is aSpanishnoun. It means: Enorme y colosal criatura marina de la mitología nórdica descrita comúnmente como un tipo de pulpo, calamar gigante o medusa que, emergiendo de las profundidades, ataca barcos y devora a los marine... Pronounced [ˈkɾakẽn].

Key facts for kraken
PropertyValue
Headwordkraken
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkɾakẽn]
Letters6
Frequency rank#52,362
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of kraken in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for kraken is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾakẽn]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,362 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Enorme y colosal criatura marina de la mitología nórdica descrita comúnmente como un tipo de pulpo, calamar gigante o medusa que, emergiendo de las profundidades, ataca barcos y devora a los marine...".

No misspelling variants are generated for kraken 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 kraken, spelled K-R-A-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Enorme y colosal criatura marina de la mitología nórdica descrita comúnmente como un tipo de pulpo, calamar gigante o medusa que, emergiendo de las profundidades, ataca barcos y devora a los marineros.

Frequency rank: #52,362 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kraken"?
"kraken" is spelled K-R-A-K-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkɾakẽn].
What does "kraken" mean?
As a noun, "kraken" means: Enorme y colosal criatura marina de la mitología nórdica descrita comúnmente como un tipo de pulpo, calamar gigante o medusa que, emergiendo de las profundidades, ataca barcos y devora a los marine...
How do you pronounce "kraken"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kraken" is [ˈkɾakẽn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kraken" come from?
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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.