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criminal is an Spanish adjective meaning criminal. It is the 1,422nd most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A2. It turns up in about 1 in 3,226 sentences of real Spanish prose.

1,422

rank

of 5,000

A2

CEFR level

by frequency

1 in 3,226

sentences

contain it

78.3%

running total

of a book covered

Running total is cumulative: knowing criminal and every Spanish word above it covers 78.3% of the running words in a real book.

Is criminal worth learning now?

criminal sits at rank 1,422, past the first thousand words that cover 75.32% of a book on their own. It is a A2 word: worth learning once the commonest thousand are secure, and you will meet it often enough at that point to make it stick.

Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a Spanish text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.

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Where this comes from

The rank is measured, not copied: 394 million words of subtitle dialogue for how Spanish is spoken, and 45 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so criminal is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.

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