asentaban
[asẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“asentaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,107 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,107
- 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 asentar o de asentarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asentaban · asentaban · Spanish
asentaban · rank #98,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,107
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aseveran
Nearest frequency peer: aseveran (+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 “asentaban”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Arruabarrena
Arruabarrena
1,898 corpus weight
- articulador
articulador
1,897 corpus weight
- asentaban
asentaban
1,894 corpus weight
- aseveran
aseveran
1,893 corpus weight
- astrológicas
astrológicas
1,889 corpus weight
- astrágalo
astrágalo
1,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “asentaban” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asentaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [asẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “asentaban” en español
Rare enough to double-check
asentaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,107 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [asẽn̪ˈt̪aβ̞ãn]. 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 asentar o de asentarse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for asentaban, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is asentaban, spelled A-S-E-N-T-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de asentar o de asentarse.
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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