alaban
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,557
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
alaban is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de alabar. Pronounced [aˈlaβ̞ãn]. Often confused with Alan and alba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aˈlaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for alaban is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈlaβ̞ãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,557 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for alaban, with forms such as "aalban", "alaabn", and "alabann". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Alan", "alba", "amaba", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is alaban, spelled A-L-A-B-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de alabar.
- 2Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de alarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aalban,alaabn,alabann,alabban,alabna,alavan,albaan,allaban,laaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alaban
Misspelling Variants of "alaban"
Frequency rank: #39,557 in Spanish
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