canten
[ˈkãn̪t̪ẽn]
The verdict
“canten” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,371
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de cantar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-canten · canten · Spanish
canten · rank #30,371 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH caminatas
Nearest frequency peer: caminatas (-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 “canten”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Cachemira
Cachemira
69,633 corpus weight
- califa
califa
69,632 corpus weight
- caminatas
caminatas
69,631 corpus weight
- canten
canten
69,630 corpus weight
- casetas
casetas
69,629 corpus weight
- catalogar
catalogar
69,628 corpus weight
What this shows “canten” 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 | canten |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkãn̪t̪ẽn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “canten”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around canten (IPA [ˈkãn̪t̪ẽn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,371 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for canten, with forms such as "acnten", "canetn", and "cannten". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cate", "canto", "Conte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 canten, spelled C-A-N-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de cantar.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de cantar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnten
- canetn
- cannten
- cantenn
- cantne
- cantten
- catnen
- ccanten
- cnaten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canten - 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 "canten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).