caminaban
[kamiˈnaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“caminaban” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,928. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,928
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
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 caminar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caminaban · caminaban · Spanish
caminaban · rank #34,928 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,928
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cambiaban
Nearest frequency peer: cambiaban (-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 “caminaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- calero
calero
65,077 corpus weight
- callos
callos
65,076 corpus weight
- cambiaban
cambiaban
65,074 corpus weight
- caminaban
caminaban
65,073 corpus weight
- canino
canino
65,072 corpus weight
- cards
cards
65,071 corpus weight
What this shows “caminaban” 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 | caminaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kamiˈnaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “caminaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around caminaban (IPA [kamiˈnaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,928 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caminar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for caminaban, with forms such as "acminaban", "caimnaban", and "camianban". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "caminan", "caminata", "caminatas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is caminaban, spelled C-A-M-I-N-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de caminar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acminaban
- caimnaban
- camianban
- caminaabn
- caminabann
- caminabban
- caminabna
- caminavan
- caminbaan
- caminnaban
- camminaban
- camniaban
- ccaminaban
- cmainaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caminaban - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "caminaban", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).