Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cruces

/ˈkɹu.siz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: cruces
IPA: /ˈkɹu.siz/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

name

A surname from Spanish.

name

plural of Cruce

Example Sentences

"Others, trained in the interpretation of linguistic cruces in the Odyssey and Beowulf, find it difficult to detect clarity and certainty in instructions like the following (for the operation of a video cassette recorder)[.]"
"I attempt to find emotional or rhetorical cruces and to connect these in as graceful a way as I can manage in roughly the same number of lines as Seneca used."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Cruces.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: Cruces

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɹu.siz/

Inflected Forms

Cruceses (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce cruces?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹu.siz/.
What does cruces mean?: plural of crux
Where does cruces come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

How to pronounce cruces

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