alejaban
[aleˈxaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“alejaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #75,101 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,101
- 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 alejar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alejaban · alejaban · Spanish
alejaban · rank #75,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,101
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Aleixandre
Nearest frequency peer: Aleixandre (-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 “alejaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- alaben
alaben
24,905 corpus weight
- Albertina
Albertina
24,903 corpus weight
- Aleixandre
Aleixandre
24,901 corpus weight
- alejaban
alejaban
24,900 corpus weight
- alemany
alemany
24,898 corpus weight
- Alfons
Alfons
24,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alejaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alejaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aleˈxaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alejaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alejaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #75,101 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aleˈxaβ̞ãn]. 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 alejar.".
alejaban has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct Spanish form is alejaban, spelled A-L-E-J-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de alejar.
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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