ahogaban
[aoˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“ahogaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,162 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,162
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
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 ahogar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ahogaban · ahogaban · Spanish
ahogaban · rank #99,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,162
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aireado
Nearest frequency peer: aireado (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “ahogaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- agregaste
agregaste
844 corpus weight
- agrios
agrios
843 corpus weight
- aguantaré
aguantaré
841 corpus weight
- ahogaban
ahogaban
839 corpus weight
- aireado
aireado
838 corpus weight
- ajusticiar
ajusticiar
836 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ahogaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahogaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aoˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ahogaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ahogaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,162 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aoˈɣ̞aβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ahogar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ahogaban in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ahogaban, spelled A-H-O-G-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de ahogar.
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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