acercaba
[aseɾˈkaβ̞a]
The verdict
“acercaba” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,744
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acercaba · acercaba · Spanish
acercaba · rank #14,744 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,744
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH útero
Nearest frequency peer: útero (-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 “acercaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- yes
yes
85,260 corpus weight
- étnico
étnico
85,259 corpus weight
- útero
útero
85,258 corpus weight
- acercaba
acercaba
85,257 corpus weight
- acostumbra
acostumbra
85,256 corpus weight
- activismo
activismo
85,255 corpus weight
What this shows “acercaba” 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 | acercaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aseɾˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “acercaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around acercaba (IPA [aseɾˈkaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,744 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for acercaba, with forms such as "accercaba", "acecraba", and "aceracba". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "acercan", "acercar", "acercas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is acercaba, spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accercaba
- acecraba
- aceracba
- acercaab
- acercabba
- acercava
- acercbaa
- acerccaba
- acerrcaba
- acrecaba
- aecrcaba
- asercaba
- caercaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acercaba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "acercaba", 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).