alentaban
[alẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“alentaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,441 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,441
- 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 alentar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alentaban · alentaban · Spanish
alentaban · rank #86,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,441
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alcantarillad…
Nearest frequency peer: alcantarillados (-3 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 “alentaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- alarm
alarm
13,565 corpus weight
- alcantarill…
alcantarillados
13,563 corpus weight
- alentaban
alentaban
13,560 corpus weight
- almorzado
almorzado
13,557 corpus weight
- Aloysius
Aloysius
13,556 corpus weight
- alquilaban
alquilaban
13,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “alentaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alentaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [alẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “alentaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
alentaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,441 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [alẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn]. 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 alentar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alentaban, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is alentaban, spelled A-L-E-N-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de alentar.
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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