acercábamos
[aseɾˈkaβ̞amos]
The verdict
“acercábamos” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,431 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,431
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acercabamos · acercábamos · Spanish
acercábamos · rank #87,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,431
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acomete
Nearest frequency peer: acomete (+2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “acercábamos”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- abrazaban
abrazaban
12,576 corpus weight
- abusaban
abusaban
12,574 corpus weight
- acercábamos
acercábamos
12,570 corpus weight
- acomete
acomete
12,568 corpus weight
- aconsejas
aconsejas
12,566 corpus weight
- acoplada
acoplada
12,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “acercábamos” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acercábamos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aseɾˈkaβ̞amos] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “acercábamos” en español
Rare enough to double-check
acercábamos is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,431 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aseɾˈkaβ̞amos]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for acercábamos in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is acercábamos, spelled A-C-E-R-C-Á-B-A-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
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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