animaban
[aniˈmaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“animaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,122 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,122
- 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 animar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-animaban · animaban · Spanish
animaban · rank #65,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,122
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH angloparlante
Nearest frequency peer: angloparlante (-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 “animaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Anchorena
Anchorena
34,882 corpus weight
- andanada
andanada
34,881 corpus weight
- angloparlan…
angloparlante
34,880 corpus weight
- animaban
animaban
34,879 corpus weight
- anteproyect…
anteproyectos
34,877 corpus weight
- anticoncept…
anticonceptiva
34,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “animaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aniˈmaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “animaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
animaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,122 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [aniˈmaβ̞ãn]. 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 animar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for animaban, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 animaban, spelled A-N-I-M-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de animar.
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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