comenzaba
[komẽnˈsaβ̞a]
The verdict
“comenzaba” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,338
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de comenzar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-comenzaba · comenzaba · Spanish
comenzaba · rank #12,338 · 14 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,338
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH combinar
Nearest frequency peer: combinar (-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 “comenzaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Collins
Collins
87,666 corpus weight
- Columbia
Columbia
87,665 corpus weight
- combinar
combinar
87,664 corpus weight
- comenzaba
comenzaba
87,663 corpus weight
- completado
completado
87,661 corpus weight
- concluido
concluido
87,660 corpus weight
What this shows “comenzaba” 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 | comenzaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [komẽnˈsaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “comenzaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around comenzaba (IPA [komẽnˈsaβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,338 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for comenzaba, with forms such as "ccomenzaba", "cmoenzaba", and "coemnzaba". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "comenzar", "comenzado", "comenzará", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 comenzaba, spelled C-O-M-E-N-Z-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de comenzar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de comenzar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomenzaba
- cmoenzaba
- coemnzaba
- comenazba
- comennzaba
- comenzaab
- comenzabba
- comenzava
- comenzbaa
- comenzzaba
- comeznaba
- commenzaba
- comnezaba
- ocmenzaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comenzaba - 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 "comenzaba", 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).