cristas
Portuguese, noun
cristas is spelled C-R-I-S-T-A-S (7 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,093rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cristas is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of crista” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, cristãs is a different word: “plural of cristã”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “planta poligonácea da espécie Persicaria maculosa”.
What does cristas mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of crista
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine plural of cristão
noun
- 1
plural of cristã
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. planta poligonácea da espécie Persicaria maculosa
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is cristas in Portuguese?
cristas appears 4.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).