acercaban
[aseɾˈkaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“acercaban” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,901
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acercaban · acercaban · Spanish
acercaban · rank #29,901 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,901
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH abusiva
Nearest frequency peer: abusiva (-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 “acercaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ácida
ácida
70,104 corpus weight
- abusiva
abusiva
70,101 corpus weight
- acercaban
acercaban
70,100 corpus weight
- acomodo
acomodo
70,099 corpus weight
- acompañen
acompañen
70,098 corpus weight
- aconsejan
aconsejan
70,097 corpus weight
What this shows “acercaban” 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 | acercaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aseɾˈkaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “acercaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around acercaban (IPA [aseɾˈkaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,901 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for acercaban, with forms such as "accercaban", "acecraban", and "aceracban". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "acercan", "acercará", "acercaron", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is acercaban, spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de acercar o de acercarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accercaban
- acecraban
- aceracban
- acercaabn
- acercabann
- acercabban
- acercabna
- acercavan
- acercbaan
- acerccaban
- acerrcaban
- acrecaban
- aecrcaban
- asercaban
- caercaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acercaban - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "acercaban", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).