apuntaba
[apũn̪ˈt̪aβ̞a]
The verdict
“apuntaba” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,918
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de apuntar o de apuntarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apuntaba · apuntaba · Spanish
apuntaba · rank #19,918 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,918
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aplastar
Nearest frequency peer: aplastar (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “apuntaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- anexos
anexos
80,086 corpus weight
- apartar
apartar
80,085 corpus weight
- aplastar
aplastar
80,084 corpus weight
- apuntaba
apuntaba
80,083 corpus weight
- aseguraba
aseguraba
80,081 corpus weight
- astronauta
astronauta
80,080 corpus weight
What this shows “apuntaba” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apuntaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apũn̪ˈt̪aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “apuntaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around apuntaba (IPA [apũn̪ˈt̪aβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,918 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for apuntaba, with forms such as "apnutaba", "appuntaba", and "apunatba". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "apuntan", "apuntar", "apuntas", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is apuntaba, spelled A-P-U-N-T-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de apuntar o de apuntarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de apuntar o de apuntarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnutaba
- appuntaba
- apunatba
- apunntaba
- apuntaab
- apuntabba
- apuntava
- apuntbaa
- apunttaba
- aputnaba
- aupntaba
- pauntaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apuntaba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "apuntaba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).