buscaba
[busˈkaβ̞a]
The verdict
“buscaba” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,470
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de buscar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-buscaba · buscaba · Spanish
buscaba · rank #5,470 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,470
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH brown
Nearest frequency peer: brown (-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 “buscaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Bretaña
Bretaña
94,534 corpus weight
- británica
británica
94,533 corpus weight
- brown
brown
94,532 corpus weight
- buscaba
buscaba
94,531 corpus weight
- cabrón
cabrón
94,530 corpus weight
- civilización
civilización
94,528 corpus weight
What this shows “buscaba” 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 | buscaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [busˈkaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “buscaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around buscaba (IPA [busˈkaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,470 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for buscaba, with forms such as "bbuscaba", "bsucaba", and "bucsaba". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "buscar", "buscan", "buscad", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is buscaba, spelled B-U-S-C-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de buscar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de buscar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuscaba
- bsucaba
- bucsaba
- busacba
- buscaab
- buscabba
- buscbaa
- busccaba
- busscaba
- ubscaba
- vuscava
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buscaba - 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 "buscaba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).