circulaban
[siɾkuˈlaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“circulaban” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,490. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,490
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- 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 circular.
Corpus desk
Index ES-circulaban · circulaban · Spanish
circulaban · rank #33,490 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,490
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Christmas
Nearest frequency peer: Christmas (-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 “circulaban”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- chaparro
chaparro
66,514 corpus weight
- chorizos
chorizos
66,513 corpus weight
- Christmas
Christmas
66,512 corpus weight
- circulaban
circulaban
66,511 corpus weight
- colocaba
colocaba
66,509 corpus weight
- colorear
colorear
66,508 corpus weight
What this shows “circulaban” 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 | circulaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siɾkuˈlaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “circulaban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around circulaban (IPA [siɾkuˈlaβ̞ãn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,490 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de circular.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for circulaban, with forms such as "ccirculaban", "cicrulaban", and "circculaban". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "circulan", "circularon", "circulaba", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is circulaban, spelled C-I-R-C-U-L-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de circular.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccirculaban
- cicrulaban
- circculaban
- circluaban
- circualban
- circulaabn
- circulabann
- circulabban
- circulabna
- circulavan
- circulbaan
- circullaban
- cirrculaban
- ciruclaban
- criculaban
- icrculaban
- sirculaban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circulaban - 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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).