cerraban
[seˈraβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“cerraban” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,934
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- 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 cerrar o de cerrarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cerraban · cerraban · Spanish
cerraban · rank #34,934 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,934
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cerquita
Nearest frequency peer: cerquita (-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 “cerraban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cards
cards
65,071 corpus weight
- cedida
cedida
65,069 corpus weight
- cerquita
cerquita
65,068 corpus weight
- cerraban
cerraban
65,067 corpus weight
- chacarita
chacarita
65,065 corpus weight
- chale
chale
65,064 corpus weight
What this shows “cerraban” 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 | cerraban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [seˈraβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cerraban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cerraban (IPA [seˈraβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,934 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de cerrar o de cerrarse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cerraban, with forms such as "ccerraban", "ceraban", and "cerarban". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "cerrada", "cerrará", "creaban", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cerraban, spelled C-E-R-R-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de cerrar o de cerrarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccerraban
- ceraban
- cerarban
- cerraabn
- cerrabann
- cerrabban
- cerrabna
- cerravan
- cerrbaan
- creraban
- ecrraban
- serraban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cerraban - 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 "cerraban", 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).